Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nebulium. Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being...
...such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against the commercialization of scholarship or the fostering of a desire to win by any methods rather than to learn through sound study. At worst the series of scholastic contests started last Monday can do no more than to bury themselves...
...more emphasis on either scholarship or intellectual ability or both. But to imagine that such tests will command continued public attention is to give the public too much credit. The public is not interested, you might even say that students generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly...
Amateur theatricals when amusing are usually so through previous acquaintance with the actors. The audience is seldom enthralled by a remarkable performance; it derives its pleasure from seeing old friends in strange guises. Even more so is this the case when those old friends are completely out of their element; when boys take girls' parts or vice versa...
...favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak reign of Frederick III that the decay of the medaeval imperial power approached its climax, the tragic element in all this phantastic splendor becomes apparent...