Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness. Any single sound having distinct pitch we shall call a Note, without distinct pitch a Noise. The physical cause of a note is a regularly periodic...
...novel suggestions, its new outlook upon psychology, its wide range of comparative study and the help which it gives one towards desired many-sidedness of insight. He characterizes the method of the book as a curiously intermediate one among the various possible views as to the nature of the mind, standing half way between the mind theory on the one hand, with which it shares the notion of the unity of the thinker, even although this thinker is but momentary, and the hypothesis of the atomic idea, on the other hand, with which it shares the tendency to accept...
...English Language and Literature. (2) a general acquaintance with English Literature. (3) Proficiency in English Composition. Although no hard and fast rules have been made as to these requirements, it is pretty well understood that a candidate, in selecting the six full courses required for honors, must bear in mind the object of the department...
...concerts given on the trip. Was the president too busy to read the papers. I wonder or were expurgated editions furnished to the Glee Club? One has to go farther west than St. Louis nowadays, to have criticism emphasized with pistol balls, and a chinocerous does not mind mustard shot...
Protessor James's article on the three years' course is, however, of great interest as showing exactly the frame of mind in which the majority of the Harvard faculty view the proposed change. Professor James sets forth the various motives for it vigorously and, in many cases, plausibly, but not always convincingly...