Word: adaptions
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Cushman, who has been rowing starboard all spring, is not quite as easy in the new position as some of the others but he is a good oarsman and if he can adapt himself to the other side of the boat he may show up better in the future. Neither Swaim nor Watts have figured much during the last week since both are known quantities and Coach Brown is now more interested in letting the unknown men prove their worth...
...Swarthmore honors plan, the Harvard tutorial system and the Wisconsin Experimental College all impress us as admirable reforms tending to informalize and intensify college training. They show a growing tendency to consider each student as an individual, to adapt the course of study to his needs and interests, to stimulate his curiosity, and to develop his initiative. However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin...
...opposite to that of a cell is passed through it, then that cell dies. The cell's potential depends on its semipermeable film, on certain electrolytic concentrations, water, temperatures, oxidation. They all create the potential. It is the electrical charge on the cell which permits the cell to adapt itself to changes. Oxidation occurs only in the presence of the charge and in turn creates the charge. After his observations, Dr. Crile believes that he has come very close to an explanation of life itself...
...Perhaps the chief reason for the fluctuating conditions in the industry today is the fact that so many of the men who still dominate it, were with it in its promotional stages and do not adapt themselves or their productions to settled conditions. In time, however the motion picture business is sure to arrive at the stabilization already enjoyed by the radio...
Differences in customs, and even in language, are sufficient to mark the American Rhodes Scholar off as a foreigner at first. Yet he, and his colleagues from the Dominions, soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally the differences in native ability, temperament, and training make for differences in accomplishment. Some Rhodes Scholars have had a very successful. Oxford career, although their accomplishments would not look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part...