Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard Wins. Four weeks after they had laid down their pens for the glory of Harvard and of Yale in English literature (TIME, May 14), the "brain" teams of the two universities heard the verdict. Harvard won, 93 to 117, the scoring being done as in a cross country race (one point for the best examination paper, 20 points for the worst). Two Harvard undergraduates-Nathan M. Pusey of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and James L. McLane of Garrison, Md.-finished first and second. Yale's best, George T. Washington of Detroit, great -grandnephew of Father -of -His -Country George...
With the announcement of the results of the Putnam competition, our faith in the tutorial system has been greatly strengthened. The fact that Harvard won the first intercollegiate brain contest gives evidence of the asset which is acquired from a background of extensive tutorial reading. Indeed the time may come when Radcliffe will meet an opponent on this same field, especially since several women's colleges are now introducing the tutorial system. As both Radcliffe and Wellesley are famed for their English departments, we venture to predict a competition between these...
...test brings up at once the question whether an examination in English literature is likely to be a test of the brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That...
...Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant Woman), and Iskusstvo Trudyaschimsya (Art for the Workers). Lastly Comrade Lunacharsky is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and the Science of Art. His principles are Red; but his brain is fully capable of coping with that of the tall, untidy man who resembles Robert Louis Stevenson...
...Movies. Philip Dunning, who was supposed to have had an important part in the writing of the raucous and exciting Broadway, is billed also as the co-author of this thing. The discrepancy between his two brain children is not nice to contemplate. The second is about a pale and gawky elf who wins a scenario-writing prize, comes to Hollywood, is besieged by unscrupulous women who want him to get them in the movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain...