Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that wise men not only change their minds, but that they may,--and in the normal course of events do,--graduate. Mr. Larrabee in an article on college journalism finds that undergraduate publications do not lay inordinate stress upon athletics, and that the student's desire for such reading matter in his less concentrated hours does not show a lack of proportion in his interests; and thrusts the question of lopsidedness back upon the athletes who provide the show. It may still be doubted, however, whether the all-absorbing two months' football season does not create too great a hiatus...
...Physical Colloquium. "Stark: on the Constitution of Matter," by Dr. Harry Clark, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...Angell is perhaps best known for his books against war, which include "Europe's Optical Illusion," "The Great Illusion," and "The Foundation of International Polity." His latest publication is little booklet, entitled "to the American Student: an Open Letter." The subject-matter of the short put impressive work is only too significant now, for it treated of "International Conciliation...
...This increase in Princeton's salary budge for 10 years represents a capitalization at 4 per cent, of $5,154,375. The university, however, has noting like this sum as endowment. As a matter of fact. Princeton's invested funds for professional salaries yield about $105,000 annually and as the amount combined with the sums received from tuition and from fees, fails far short of the sun required every year for salaries, the alumni are called upon each year to meet a considerable deficit in the salary budget...
...leading article is a vigorous, unpolished essay by Mr. Denison on "Samual Butler and the Way of All Flesh." It is full of interesting matter, of which a greatest art will be new to most readers. The second literary essay, Mr. Littell's "Imagines and Gargoyles," seems the work of a writer who has not grown up no his vocabulary, but who has things to say and may discipline himself into saying them well. Of the two stories, Mr. Dos Passos's "Pot of Tulips" contains skilful description and an inimitable heroin. Mr. Whittlesey's "Best Laid Schemes" is lively...