Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Records; 3) Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect...
...arrive July second. Five of the English net-men are students at Cambridge University--M. D. Horne, C. Ramaswami, J. N. Lowry, J. H. Van Allen, and J. Wilder; the other four players are representatives of Oxford--S. F. Hepburn, W. S. Watt, J. A. Lezard, and A. P. Kingsley...
...nature through sacraments and music, it works, as far as the common people are concerned. Dean Inge points out that whereas the genius of the Roman race is primarily for government and power, the genius of the Anglo-Saxon race is primarily for valor, honor and truthfulness. He contrasts Kingsley's blundering directness in 1845 with Newman's "loss of power to distinguish fact from fiction." The three results of this Anglo-Saxon Protestantism are: a reversion to an earlier Christianity than the Catholic, an inspiration of moral and political reform, and a dependence on the religious witness...
...question of relativity. The whale has the largest brain, but his body is much larger, in comparison with the dog, the monkey or man. Arrange everything according to the ratio of brain to body, and you have the order of intelligence." Babies, then would outrank us all, confirming Charles Kingsley. And the elephant, who is declared to be one of the craftiest of beasts, would come out nowhere...
...tournament. H. P. U. Harris '23 lost to C. P. Clifford '03 three games to one, and D. P. Kingaley 21, of the Lincoln inn Society defeated T. K. Richards '15, the former University football manager, in a hard match 15-5, 14-17, 15-13, 15-12. Besides Kingsley, R. C. Bostwick '23, and G. M. Laimbeer '26 won their matches while P. R. Pease '26 and G. S. Hall 1L were beaten...