Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The creative genius and the attitude of constructive living are being smothered in our present grammer schools because, we are told with splendid intuition, of logically arranged and logically presented content. What those phrases mean the adherents of them do not say it is enough that they have been given...
Nevertheless, it is indisputable that great poets such as Keats and Tennyson felt the need of some sort of belief in a life after death. So did the philosophers Plato and Socrates; the only difference being that those men worked the problem out spiritually, in and for themselves, while Sir...
In his talk, Professor Osgood brought out these points: "The trigonometric functions, sin x and cos x, are ordinarily defined by means of a right triangle; thus sin x equals a divided by c, etc. This procedure is natural, since the elementary facts of geometry appeal most strongly to our...
The return of examination books written for the April "hours" brings into renewed prominence that eternal bug-a-boo of the college student,--the ambiguous examination question. Confronted by the testimony of successful and flunking students alike, an impartial observer must conclude that ability to "guess what the instructor is...
The University fable that the girl of the Junior Dance is the Senior fiancee meets unusual circumstances tonight. Realizing that 1920 is leap year we are lost in conjecture, wondering how the delicate feminine intuition will avail itself of this opportunity to usurp the masculine prerogative. In the lilt of...