Word: esotericism
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"For whooping cough, pass the child nine times over and under a donkey from left to right." That is a prescription of the 17th Century. For the same complaint, 100 years ago, a doctor would have shaken his head, stroked his beaver, written Pil. Quin. Sulph. on a brown pad...
The Harvard Dramatic Club decided that "The Makropoulos Secret", the latest work of Karel Capek, was a play well worth doing, and, according to its esoteric lights, it might have presented this play to empty seats and still it would be worth the doing. The Club would be richer in...
The Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No...
In the purpose which the Musical Club has set for itself and has been carrying out, it is aiding and abetting a proper ideal--that colleges should be the laboratories where new inventions may be tried out and, if not found wanting, introduced to the public--that colleges should not...
Whatever opinion one may hold of the Government's intrusion into our academic sanctuaries with the intensive Reserve Officers' Training Corps courses, the fact remains that intercollegiate polo has thereby become a practical reality. The shockingly expensive equipment and the esoteric training, heretofore exclusively associated with great wealth...