Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote but kindly cynicism their delirious reversion to the bestial. "Hogarthian," said the critics. "Horrible," said the quality...
...Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden of the complaint is the submissiveness of the creature. I once...
...Aping is the hardest trick which an honest ape can do," declared Professor Wolfgang Kohler last night before the Philosophical Club. Professor Kohler, who is Exchange Lecturer from Germany to Clark University, spoke on his experiences with apes and the hearing of his experiments on psychology...
Another fact which Professor Kohler stressed was the mistaken idea of ape psychology which is held by many persons. "Apes do not ape," was the epitome of his discourse. Simian intelligence is not imitative; its advances are through trial and error or by a sudden comprehension of the key facts of a situation...
...evolution can interfere with his being a Christian if he wants to believe in Christianity. It seems to me that whether a man prefers to believe that his original ancestor was made out of mud or whether he thinks in the other hand that his ancestor was an ape he ought in either case of appre- ciate the social value of the teaching of Christ. I am not in the least discomposed by Mr. Bryan's attitude toward evolution, nor do I like him the less...