Word: brained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most accurate measurements ever made of the manner in which the optic nerve transmits nerve impulses from the eyes to the brain have been made recently at the laboratories of the Medical School and have thrown new light on the laws governing the mechanism of vision...
...present system of having no semester tests at Purdue was designed to eliminate these disastrous brain-racking periods, and this naturally makes it much easier for the student to keep up with all of his work if he chooses to do so. Work out a system for yourself and follow it. --The Purdue Exponent...
...even dull the business acumen and clog the mind with things not needed. But that is as it should be according to Mr. Emerson, for college trains not for life but for living. The four "wasted" years should not pack the mind with encyclopedic facts or change the brain into an animated Spanish dictionary. Instead they should serve to pile up a store, a credit account of satisfaction on which to draw in future years...
...work, the announcement that the Modern Language Conference has decided to admit undergraduates to membership is a pleasing one. It follows along the lines of confidence in the undergraduate marked out by the new ruling, that allows Seniors to take only three courses, and admits that the collegiate brain can be interested in things of the mind...
...Junior class the A's have a representative proportion in the first three groups of the rank list over fifteen percent better than the Z's. Yet the raw, crude brain was never alphabetically alloted. The system creates alphabetical cliques. Instead of friendships formed by ties of similar tastes, lecture room friendships are made among men by letters. The only man to profit by alphabetical seating is the monitor; for the rest it is an abridging of the evolutionary right to freedom of selection. The German generals card-indexed the War; shall Harvard alphabetize instruction...