Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their choice of a field of concentration. President Lowell will give a talk, covering the ground generally; Dr. R. M. Eaton, head tutor in the department of Philosophy, will speak on the relations of the student to his tutor; and Assistant Dean Delmar Leighton '19 will explain in detail the steps the Freshman must take to enroll in a field of concentration, as well as the making out of a plan of study...
...second place the report takes up the Philosophy Requirement. "If it should be true as some of the ablest minds of the present day believe, that science has its limits and cannot explain the whole of life: if it should be true that, in addition to the world of external nature which science is learning to control, there is also a world of internal nature which religion or philosophy must teach the individual to control, then education cannot rest content with half of life, but must attempt to teach the whole...
...them or both. One should know about such things, though, especially since the New York Times is going to such trouble to promote an interest in current events among effete and sophisticated collegians, and I shall go at 2 o'clock to Sever 11 to hear. Professor Backett explain the matter for the satisfaction and enlightenment of History...
...back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...
...where syphilitic spoors and exopthalmic goiter do not intrude, shows the symptoms of atypical migraine. The relationship between the brain and the abdominal viscera, in this disease, remains obscure. Four cases out of ten were operated upon, and the doctors found, as they expected, that there was nothing to explain the pains. Cathartics would do no good here...