Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...persuading Professor Taussig of Harvard to take the chairmanship of the new Tariff Commission, the country is to be congratulated. In a sense the work the commission has to do lies in a new field, and everything will depend on the way it is done. Congress is not likely ever to abandon any part of its prerogatives in tariff making, but a body of advisers who have the general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement...
...Harvard, he says, was really as good a team as Haverford in skill and speed, but not so good a goal keeper. Like Haverford, the team plays the long passing game, quick on the ball and strong in the passes. The Crimson did not have the headwork of Haverford, but was a heavier team. Goal was good, and the backs were very steady, charging strong and well and with good judgment...
...this country Stanford University has been provided with a special endowment to facilitate the prosecution of psychical research. An American Society, organized in 1884, is also carrying on similar work. Its efforts, like those of the London Society, have been directed particularly towards the telepathic communication of thought by means of the extreme sensitiveness of the subliminal mind, and to the gathering of evidence tending to prove the continued existence of the mind after the death of the body. At an open meeting of the Graduate Schools Society, to be held in Phillips Brooks House this evening...
...seems that all the officers should like to attend the addresses by the New York officers, and although the course is not compulsory in any way I will have to surmise that those officers who fail to show up are not much interested in their work...
...justice to him I will quote the best image, an emotional image, if I may use the term. He is telling how two persons in a store talking in their alien English tongue feel themselves apart from the French crowd around them, and in a way above them, "Like a child's vague dream of principality." This is not studied; it is natural, effective. But unfortunately it stands in comparative solitude...