Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...human organism upon which the health and strength of an individual most depends, I should unhesitatingly say the nervous system. The reflex actions are those produced by some cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate in the spinal cord and none of them enter the brain, there could be no such thing as sensation, and parts of the body might be badly injured without the person knowing it. The law of eccentric projection...
...Such devices as making relief maps of sand and drawing charts of given districts are resorted to in no small measure. Gradually a wider view of the world's geography is given them, but without that ridiculous heaping of dry facts and statistics so common in our teaching. The brain is not loaded down with long lists of names; no tables of statistics of populations of cities, lengths of rivers and heights of mountains are employed. A view of the following programme of a "realschule" of the first order at Leipzig, as given in a recent number of Science (from...
...constructive exigencies of vaulting? 4. A comparison of Titian and Rembrandt as colorists. 5. The employment of figure sculpture as an adjunct to architecture in Italy and France respectively. 6. Has Psychology profited to any appreciable extent by the discoveries made in the anatomy and physiology of the brain and the rest of the nervous system? 7. Discuss the two propositions: (a) "Had the ancients been serious in their belief, we should not have had their Gods exhibited in the manner we find them represented in the poets;" (b) "To deal with Greek religion honestly you must at once understand...
...readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion, translations like Mr. Santayana's "May Night," and Mr. Mitchell's "Little Dauphin," are worth twice to the college literary world what a namby pamby love story, or a wild medley of lunacy and brain fever would...
...large amount of misery, and are responsible for a stock of morbid views of life. Buchner said, "no thinking without phosphorus." Had he said, no health with a disordered stomach, the saying would have had some value. "A man has two lungs, two kidneys, two hemispheres to the brain, and two sides to his body generally, but only one stomach." Let him then deal very gently with that one. All solid food should be thoroughly chewed, in order to submit the insoluble starch of vegetables to the action of saliva, converting it into soluble sugar, and to divide the nitrogenous...