Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans are under way now for the launching of another trip, to be mad during the Easter vacation, and to include New York and points East. The choice between Hartford, Providence, Springfield and Worcester has not been made yet. This trip, to take in only three days, will mark a big step forward in the progress of the club, as it will be the first time that two visits have been made to foreign territory for more than a day in the same college year! Southern trips were made in Easter of last year, and in the recent Christmas holidays...
Some months ago, when five handlers of tetraethyl lead employed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, went raving mad and died in straitjackets (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924, SCIENCE), the health menace in manufacturing "ethyl gasoline" was recognized. The plant was shut down; the sale of the new gasoline was discontinued. Health authorities investigated also the dangers of handling the fuel and the dangers of encountering exhaust fumes from motors...
...magazines and talk with one another. Even during the Sunday services . . . there was always the feeling that the lid might blow off at any time. . . . I would rather have 50 interested men coming here willingly than 1,500 coming because they have to and sitting through the services mad." Thus Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, writing last week in the Boston Herald upon the effect of a ruling (TIME, Oct. 19) that relieved undergraduates of compulsion to attend services in the chapel of Dartmouth College, of which the Rev. Mr. Chamberlain is director...
...could be picked out as a lucky stockbroker or traveling salesman. He chatted pleasantly of the fabulous amounts forced upon him by the paradoxical publishers of hundreds of periodicals in every corner of the world, clamoring for his pages. Verily it was all a fairy tale gone mad...
Science, through its positive achievements in the phenomenal world, has come to dominate modern education. We are gone mad over the scientific method, and because it has accomplished so much in its legitimate field, we seem to think it the remedy for all our problems. In consequence, we apply it to matters that can never be reduced to formulas and cold logic. Human life is only partially rational. And by considering it wholly so, much of our education has become so much fact and circumstances dumped out of the dusty confines of some pedant's notebook and abandoned...