Word: caput
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article "Self-Education in the College" he advances his famous hypothesis that all higher education in its best form is self-education under guidance. In doing so he seeks to sever from the hydra-headed contemporary scholastic monster what many prominent educators have come to regard as the caput mortuum of every university, the principle of discipline as distinguished from the principle of letting men think out things for themselves...
...Strochavi examined the lump. Was the lump present at birth? No, her baby had been a "clean" baby. He felt the lump. The infant screamed. Contusion? There was no sign of bruising. Caput succedaneum, the deep bruising of the scalp layer immediately next to the bony skull? Probably not. Inflammation or abscess of the scalp? No. There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with...
Citizen Genet. "Louis Capet," said The National Gazette, "has lost his Caput." In theatres, audiences rose to sing Ca Ira and the Marseillaise. Gentlemen everywhere drank toasts to France. How they welcomed Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the Republic! There was even a rumor that he was bringing the lost Dauphin with him in a trunk. He made the unpardonable error, however, of mistaking the voice of the people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that...