Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kuttner's revelation of the dietetic secret of Karl Brill's football success. Most of what Mr. Brill is quoted as saying about over-eating is lamentably true, but it should be remembered that one of the Dean's hardest problems every year is to get certain thin-chested, self-supporting Freshmen to eat enough, a task which this article may make all the harder. There are also two pleasantly written descriptions of the new subway and of the new Bussey Institution, which will interest those who happen not to have heard the facts before. And finally, there...
...their meeting held yesterday afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences accepted certain restrictions on the ways of removing admission conditions which are as follows...
...volume is unusually good for a collection of student-verse. The frequency with which touches of real distinction appear is notable; and while one is now and again tolerably certain who is the favorite poet of the maker of these verses, the book shows far more originality than any reader, even if not over critical, would be likely to expect. Lines like these, for instance, taken from various poems scattered through the volume, show poetic sincerity and often no inconsiderable felicity of phrase...
...philosophical study, combining in itself remarkable men of widely differing tendencies; William James, psychologist and physiologist, whose pragmatism attempts before all to demonstrate the effective existence of an element of novelty in the course of phenomena, and in consequence, the value and power of action; Royce, who combines a certain pragmatism with a symbolic logic, and seeks in the conditions of action, the explanation of the fundamental principles of the logic itself; Muensterberg, the learned psychologist, with a leaning toward the idealism of Fichte; Santayana, who seeks under action immobility, and under new phenomena the eternal; and Palmer and Perry...
...account of a great man, the memory of whose life and achievements is still fresh, is certain to prove stimulating and to induce emulation. The story of a Harvard graduate, who was at once an exceptional executive, a scientist of the first rank, and a generous benefactor of the University, must have for Harvard students an interest both absorbing and inspiring. The life of the late Professor Alexander Agassiz was such a one: his energy, his executive ability, and his intellectual attainments won for him an international reputation. To have done as much as Professor Agassiz accomplished in each...