Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge of human nature. To be a good house-maid it is not enough to know how to wash dishes and make beds. If there is to be peace and comfort in the home the maid must know how to get along with a sometimes tired husband, a sometimes nervous wife, and some frequently obstreperous children. To be a good home-keeper it is not enough for the mistress to know how to market to the best advantage, she must understand enough of human nature to get along with an Irish maid one season, a Swedish maid a second season...
Professor G. H. Parker '87 is back from the West and will give his courses on "Elementary Zoology", "Structure and Functions of Sense Organs", and "Structure and Functions of the Central Nervous Organs". In retiring from the University Professor E. L. Mark will give up his courses on the "Embryology of Vertebrates" and Cytology". Mr. M. C. Whipple will conduct the course on "Elementary Bacteriology" this year in place of Mr. G. M. Fair...
Whether Dr. Davidson, the choirmaster, who has just originated this custom, took his cue from the healers of nervous disorders, it is quite in accord with principles which they know and apply -- sometimes with music itself. In war hospitals it was found that quiet music had a most beneficial effect on certain cases of shell-shock, especially when someone could be found to perform it who understood how to make it the vehicle of a personal influence of quietude...
...director, Professor Parker, has been associated with the University ever since his graduation in 1887, and has held a full professorship of zoology since 1906. His researches in the anatomy and reactions of the nervous organs and sense organs, especially his discoveries about the sensory reactions of fishes and the lower invertebrates in general have made him eminent in his field...
This is a lively issue of the Advocate. We come to it indifferent, skeptical, almost--languid; we leave it with a sense of nervous quickening and clarity...