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But there was more than admiration between the scrupulous credit lines. There was caution as well, lest the great "beat" were not true. Indeed the more sophisticated of Manhattan's dailies- The News (gum-chewers' sheetlet) and the great New York World, either through intuition or spectacular scepticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fake | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FLAMING YOUTH" | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD | 4/12/1922 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHEMATICIANS HOLD MEETING | 10/6/1921 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING THE QUESTION | 4/7/1921 | See Source »

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