Word: brains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Hither will come both men who've wrought, Men who've loitered, and men who've fought, Learning the broader manhood taught By genial fellowship. Here, to all the open door; Workers alike with brain and oar, Earning the cheers for a winning score, The victor's joy shall...
...ever any comprehension of theory and real science. He has not yet had time to understand that scholarly truth is like a beautiful woman, who should be loved and honored for her own sake, while it is a degradation to value her only for her practical services: a Yankee brain today cannot grasp that...
...Dukehunter) his niece, G. W. Knapp 2L. Miss Sylvia Dukehunter, her sister, and Toburn's heiress, J.C. Chipman '01 Nodo Woodmarry, "in de chorus," W.H. Taylor '01 Miss Ida Know, R.F. Jackson '03 Miss Merrie Stilly fe, A.W. Denison '03 Boston girls and friends of Sylvia. Mr. Harry Brain, I.T. Cutter '03 Mr. Art. Fuldodge, R.O. Burton '01 Mr. Flip Butrich, C.L. Ellison...
Then, lastly, materialistic science falls back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical...
Professor Shaler agrees with Professor James in rejecting the old belief that consciousness is but a function of the brain and that, therefore, without a material brain consciousness is impossible. He also believes in the newer thought that the mechanism of the brain does not directly produce conciousness, but is the instrument through which an infinite consciousness influences men's personalities and finds expression in their lives...