Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...given for athletics only, and for nothing else. The proposal has also been condemned by the Cornell Sun, representing the undergraduate body. As the managers who would be benefited by the plan hold seats on the Council, a determined effort is likely to be make to put the deal through. In view of so much opposition, however, it is doubtful if the program can succeed...
Robert Matteson Johnston, A.M., assistant professor of Modern History in the University, will address the International Polity Club in Emerson A tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of his talk will be, "The Military Problem of the United States," and he will deal especially with the question of the necessary size of a standing army and the means of obtaining...
Latin and Greek are to be discarded, but the older children are to be familiarized with ancient thought and literature through translations. Formal grammar will be dispensed with except as special need of it may be felt. The emphasis is to be on science and modern languages. A good deal of attention will be paid to the fine arts, not with the idea of training poets, musicians and painters, but in order that pupils may enjoy poetry, music and painting...
...depended a good deal upon the nature and character of his associations at college as to how far he progressed and the extent to which he could shoulder responsibility, especially where it became a matter of mixing with older, experienced business men and holding his own both in social and diplomatic ways. His principal weakness seemed to be a disinclination to endure drudgery patiently for a long time and an apparent desire to advance faster than circumstances often seemed to warrant. Other than this he was apt on the whole to develop into a more capable, intelligent, and efficient...
Although the endeavors of research workers have been hindered to a great extent by the credulity of the public in accepting the results of guess-work, fraud and chance coincidence through mediums, a great deal has been done through such mediums as Mrs. Piper, who was first discovered by Professor William James and others of equal importance. The various records of psychic phenomena which Dr. Hyslop set before the meeting revealed in a most interesting manner the basis for his belief that streams of consciousness survive the body. "I believe," said the noted psychologist in concluding, "that you cannot prove...