Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This departure from the two thirty starting time of previous years is another sign of the tendency on the part of the Athletic Association to attend to the improvement of details. The new padding along the side lines and the much needed protected press box are other tangible innovations. Of these changes the present one is perhaps most gratifying, and the most radical, preferring as it does the convenience of the present to the continuance of an antiquated ruling...
Only about six more real practice sessions remain for Captain Barrett and his men before the Big Blue team invades Cambridge. There remains much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any other major game during Horween's four years at Cambridge Harvard was beaten at Ann Arbor, it is true, but it came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished...
...situation is not devoid of hope. Even while the language requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...
...Research, has come to occupy a significant although unobtrusive place among the university's diversified activities in the economic field. Directed by a board of trustees which brings together both professors in the Department of Economics and the Business School and representative men of affairs, the Society has done much to develop closer cooperation between the academic and the practical spheres of economic activity. Its "Review of Economic Statistics" and "Weekly Letter" enjoy a limited but ever-increasing circulation among business men who desire to have some greater comprehension of underlying conditions than is afforded by ordinary newspaper reports...
...light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency of the universe is for them equivalent, in ultimate analysis...