Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gymnasium were equivalent to the first two years of our college. In the European systems these two years are added to those which go before to form an institution viz: the lycee. I am convinced that the European organization is better than ours. I am convinced that the spirit, content and method of work in the Freshman and Sophomore years of the American college are more closely assimilated to those of the High School than to those of the Junior and Senior years of college. I believe, therefore, that were those two years of college to be added...
According to H. D. Stebbins '27 who conducted the experiment, the air in Widener is perfectly pure, having a carbon dioxide content of only .06 per cent from one test and .07, the result of a second test...
...world has its quota of skeptics. Some there are who would investigate more closely schools and theories of religious belief; others who are not content with the present status of our scientific speculation. At Harvard, however, they are not satisfied with tangible and concrete targets for doubt, they must have something more aerial: they examine...
...Widener and I feared that a question as to the purity of the air might even further discourage taking advantage of our reading facilities. I was determined to clear up this matter and thus prevent an undue falling off of the attendance at the library. I am perfectly content with the results. Since I made two tests and since the percentage content of carbon dioxide varied only .01 per cent, the college will be glad to know that I feel myself justified in pronouncing the atmosphere at Widener perfectly safe, recognizing, of course, the fact that no tests are infallible...
...system would tarnish it, slow it up. bring on a more speedy death. He believes the same of alcohol in the nation's system. Even before Prohibition, he took only "occasional sips of wine" at his friends' tables. The Author. Tireless Mr. Fisher is not content to remain a professor of the "dismal science."- He now devotes only half of the college year to lecturing at Yale. He early wandered off into Eugenics, Hygiene, World Peace-always the scholarly crusader. He is a member of a myriad of leagues, associations, institutions, academies. During the War he was president...