Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other elements, such as naturalism, can be found in Alexandria, but were of minor importance there. It is quite true that a few Hellenes conducted experiments, believed in empiricism, and were interested in efficient causes. But Stoicism replaced Epicurus; Plato and Aristotle succeeded the atomists. Bacon's empirical inheritance came...
For those interested in golf, the Essex fairways were open to the Class of '32, and driving and putting contests were held behind the clubhouse, while inside the clubhouse a few square dancing enthusiasts bounced around the floor in a futile attempt to arouse a larger amount of participation from...
Classes eventually began, and the routine that was soon to be sharply broken began. Those who cringed with memories of the gargoyled Mem Hall as they passed forbidding Boylston took heart that their chemistry courses would be in the spanking new Mallinckrodt Laboratory instead. Wandering by the Law School, they...
Spring had finally really arrived, and at various places around the Square and the Yard it was beginning to show. Passing the Music Box record shop on Holyoke Street, one could see two Harvard men sit down before a phonograph and begin to listen to all the 5000 records in...
The poetry is harder to characterize, except that like the fiction, there is a lot of it. (The Advocate has 36 pages this time.) Almost all of it seems to be monotonic, which is perhaps natural enough in Cambridge, Mass. All of it also seems to be without serious flaws...