Word: choses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When Professor Lichtenberger, of the Sorbonne, chose to give his course on "Nietzsche" he counted, no doubt, on a genuine and widespread interest here in so important a figure of modern philosophy. There is no stronger evidence that he did not find it than the meager enrolment in the course. Whatever may be the course for this apparent lack of interest, whether it be the concentration and distribution system or whether we of an American university have not the same absorbing interests as the students of the universities in Europe, it is too late now to do anything...
...Class Album. But few men realize what a large amount of work it is to produce a book like this, and the infinite amount of detail and drudgery which cannot be avoided if the book is going to be worthy of the class which it represents. 1914 chose more wisely than it knew in selecting a Photograph Committee which has published a book of which every member of the Class should be proud to own a copy. Nowhere else can the graduate of tomorrow looking back upon his undergraduate life find such a complete review of those four years...
...result is inevitable, that is, the effect of producing a more serious scientific attitude toward the work. The student who chooses this Division will be presumed to have made the choice with serious intent to perfect himself in that line. The student who chose that work because he had to concentrate in something may well feel he is getting more than he bargained for. This is not a criticism; the result-to make study in that division more in the way of laboratory work, to lift it out of the region of inconsequent eclectic undergraduate education may be more serious...
Coach Reeves took charge of the 1917 candidates yesterday, and divided them into two teams with several substitutes at each position. After a short game, he chose several different infields and gave them long workouts. The outfielders, likewise, received a great deal of attention. Daily practice games will be held from...
...describing the second type of teacher the speaker referred to his trip to Germany, where he studied in three of the leading universities. There, men chose their universities according to the noted professors who delivered lectures. Five of the most distinguished men of Berlin University at this time were Curtius, Helmholz, Mommsen, Grimm, and Zupitza. Curtius was the famous Greek archaeologist, who had made valuable discoveries of classic temples and statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that...