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...tutors and tutees could then meet at a gala carnival of erudition for the Championship of the University! The final Champions, after receiving the Cup, which I have no doubt someone would donate, could then offer to answer any questions on any field that anybody in the audience could posit. You can easily see how intense the friendly rivalry between departments would become--the white heat of enthusiasm during the Finals, and the excusable pride of the winning departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Can You Spare A Dime" | 2/24/1934 | See Source »

SWEDEN Copper Despatches from Stockholm heralded the discovery at Skelleftea in the North of Sweden of one of the largest copper deposits unearthed in Europe for many years. It was recalled that the Falun mine, Sweden's celebrated copper de posit, has been worked since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SWEDEN | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Ernst Haeckel, Jacques Loeb, the "behaviorist" school of psychologists and many more have long preached materialistic determinism, but it re- mained for Dr. Crile to carry such doctrines to their logical conclusion and posit man as an electro-chemical mechanism, every cell of whose body (and he estimates that there are 28 trillions of them) is a minute wet battery with negative and positive poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Human Machine | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

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