Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down with treatises on calculus, determinants, quarternions, arbitrary functions and the theory of the potential, a very Archimedes, with formulas enough to reconstruct a universe,- stalked fearlessly in the wake of the white robed angel! He remembers no more; but this bare glimpse of the products of his busy brain will serve to show something of the possibilities that lurk within it. The very evening of the day on which this dream was told to me, I slept, and could conjure up no more stirring puppets with which to amuse myself, than two or three Quakers with their broad-brimmed...
...other the equally disagreeable taunt of being a specialist. We see one man, confident in the training afforded by the classics and the study of mathematics, elect these studies alone for his college course with the anticipation of emerging from the dust of the college furrow with a brain so beneficently trained and strengthened that it will unable him to grasp and claim for his own any subject to which he may turn his attention. Again, on the other hand, we observe exactly the opposite course pursued. We see a student endeavoring to compass within the time allotted to twelve...
...student it is extremely improbable that he will escape from the building without first inspecting the Trophy Room, or as one is informed by the inscription on the door, the Meeting Room. Trophy it should be called; meeting room is a conundrum that has puzzled the undergraduate brain since the erection of the gymnasium, and will probably continue to do so. There is a tradition that the candidates for the Mott Haven team were once notified to assemble there, and with this single exception, there is no record of any kind of a meeting ever having taken place there, either...
...skillfully stopped by Sampson, who got onto his opponent's nob with his one-two. In the second attempt Sampson's right was more successful then Spencer's had been, for he caught him a clipper on the ivory-box, Paul retaliating on the top of Phil's brain-pan with his Dexter fin. [Clipper...
...asks us "to reconcile the president's position with the attitude assumed by the Harvard committee in withdrawing from the conference in the way that they did." It may be due to our lack of sympathetic appreciation of the true in wardness of the thoughts that flit through the brain of the average Yale editor, but we don't know what the News is talking about, and await with great patience a more lucid statement of the difficulty...