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...Disproof of God," Professor Hocking, Emerson...
...Burke's plea for the adoption of the rhythm of ragtime by the musician he writes: "A queer accusation against it is that of monotony," and proceeds to show in disproof that several hundred different combinations of eighth notes are possible in a measure of four beats. True, doubtless, but there is in practice, very little variety in the grouping of these combinations in the phrase--often a constant repetition of a two measure group--and practically none in the arrangement of the several phrases. The insistency of the syncopation only aggravates the obviousness of the phraseology and the resulting...
...will," the old proverb runs, "has the same opinion still," and we are faint to believe that this defiant attitude represents the present state of mind of our brethren of the News. "To show that we were right in the grounds we took," says the News, after reading our disproof of their editorial, "we published some facts which we obtained with great care, and which we know to be accurate." How accurate these "facts" were, our readers had an opportunity of judging by reading the letters we published, written by the managers of the teams called in question. The justice...
...Emerson's position, although we must confess we believe Mr. Arnold's criticism just. As a proof that the criticism was unjust, he says that "the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced." This is, of course, no disproof of Mr. Arnold's claim, which was based on facts. As to the question of our like or dislike as Americans to see Mr. Emerson's intellectual proportions measured with "a British foot-rule," it cannot possibly enter into any discussion based on Emerson's merit or place...
...special interest to freshmen - a $300 prize. The authorities of the Johns Hopkins University offer this valuable prize, open to the students of any college and to persons interested in mathematics, for the valid proof or disproof of this proposition: "A ground form and a syzygant of the same degree and order cannot appertain to the same binary quantity," The solution must be handed in before...