Word: brained
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor James prefaced his lecture by an outline of the ground that the lecturer might cover co-operatively under the head of the subject, immortality. His address was a discussion and refutation of two objections; one questioning how in the absolute dependence upon the brain of spiritual life, as we know it here, there can be immortality; and the second relative to the incredible number of beings which we must believe to be immortal if immortality be true...
Then stop and leave the rest to be moulded in your own mind. Do not write it out. I should advise you never to take a piece of paper before your audience. Remember that if you are to speak without notes everything depends upon the condition of your brain. Keep your mind fresh. Don 't be discouraged after you have made your speech. Practice is the thing you need. The results of public speaking are enormous...
...chess team in the intercollegiate chess tournament held during the recess is very gratifying. Coming after the defeat of Princeton in debate just before the holidays it seems to strengthen the belief, with which some of us have endeavored to console ourselves after athletic defeats, that in contests of brain rather than of muscle Harvard usually wins...
...lecture courses could be better divided. There are some minor advantages to evening hours. The process of taking lecture notes requires less mental exertion than writing a theme or studying a text-book. Therefore, it would be more rational to do this original work in the morning when the brain is fresh, and save the evening for the more mechanical tasks. The athletes would certainly prefer evening courses to afternoon recitations...
...Parthenon and the so-called Theseum-edifices which exhibit the order in its perfection; and then raised the question as to the origin of the Doric temple. According to the traditional belief, the Doric temple in its finest forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown that the Roman architect Vitruvius was in the main right in deriving the Doric temple from structures...