Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides Dean Pound's address there will also be a musical program. This meeting is free of charge and open to the public...
...Council, the long-debated instrument is finally ready for ratification. In itself a matter of little moment, the clause which would theoretically have empowered the Council to "prevent any-man who shows an indisposition to respect its recommendations from becoming or remaining a member of any organization open to free competition," has served to show the attitude of the Administrative Board toward undergraduate affairs...
When animals were first studied by the psychologists, their behavior was interpreted anthropomorphically. The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department...
...cancer resistance developed through 67,000 individual studies on mice. Persistently Pathologist Slye bred the reliable rodents. Twenty years she worked and has finally concluded that cancer is not contagious, but tendencies for or against it can be inherited in mice. Twenty-five generations has she bred absolutely free of cancer because the original stock had been eugenically chosen. Cancerous ancestors infallibly transmitted the disease down the generations infallibly. Said Dr. Slye: "If we could manage human breeding as expertly as we can manage mouse breeding, it might be possible to develop a race, or at least a segment...
...football whatever time of year it may be or for those who want to receive instruction in the fundamentals of the game in order that they may derive more benefit and more pleasure from future fall seasons, if practice is made informal enough so that the players are free from a heavy weight of duty and responsibility, and if the daily sessions can be regarded as fun rather than drudgery, then spring football can serve as legitimate a purpose as fall crew or fall track. It may well relieve the tension of the hectic fall preparation; and allow many players...