Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some who heard Mr. Gerard last week may have wondered why he chose to utter even the most guarded praise of Wilhelm, who, in 1914-18, was introduced to the U. S. as a rat-faced youth, leering synthesis of cowardice and cruelty. They forgot that Ambassador Gerard looked occasionally for several years upon the actual face of Crown Prince Wilhelm. What does he look like anyway...
...undergraduate should realize that his early courses in physics and in mathematics in college are as important to the future engineering student as a course in turbines or bridge design in an engineering school. He is inclined to look on the study of mathematics, physics, or chemistry as something abstract, a kind of preliminary warming up for the real job which is to come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders prat about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine...
...rather an interesting commentary on the immense gulf which separates man from the rest of the animal kingdom, that with all his supposed intellectual power, his mastery of science and physical nature, he is practically unable to look into the mind of his dog. This inability to comprehend certainly the workings of the animal mind has led to two extremes, the one typified by Descartes, who, as a serious part of his philosophy, contends that animals are as insensible as a stone or wood, and the other by the pseudo-scientific sentimentalists fill the libraries of our youth with their...
...Look at Agnes, do! Exclaim...
...does the English oarsman ever become overtrained; not because he puts less into his training than the American, but because he is blessed with a peculiar psychology which enables him to look on sport as sport and not as a grind. The Oxford or Cambridge 'hearty' talks rowing, thinks it and, in fact, lives for nothing else. At this point I might refer to what we would consider a most inefficient method of selecting and developing a crew. In the early fall at Oxford the president of each college boat club nominates whom he considers the two best oarsmen...