Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...felt as though they had not been treated fairly. To avert a like state of affairs again, the manager should be instructed to send the score of every game played away from Cambridge without fail, and then perhaps those who remain here will not be hoodwinked into cheering pseudo Harvard victories...
...book purely sceptical, and to minds inclined to fasten on the notion will mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest problem of her history to solve, how to reconcile in a large and real sense the spirit of true science and the spirit of real religion...
...Phillipian has made the discovery that "There is a Boston ring at Harvard as there is a Philadelphia ring at Princeton. While the class is still in a molten condition, before the true worth and sentiment are recognized, these bands of real or pseudo friends working together, control the class. Many instances of this have been lately seen...
...miscellaneous nature come first, including bibliography, library economy and history, and works on books and reading. This heading is followed by (2) Theology and philosophy, under which are placed both general and physiological psychology, ecclesiastical and biblical subjects, ethics and ethnic religions. (3) Science embraces medicine, veterinary science, pseudo-science, and magic. (4) Useful arts includes all forms of industrial science, manufactures and bandicrafts, the combative arts, agriculture, lanscape-gardening, building (but not architecture), navigation, and aeronautics. (5) Fine arts embraces music, the archaeology of art and numismatics. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes other departments of archaeology; popular ballads...
...last few days the recitations in Sever have been repeatedly interrupted by the slamming of the large out-side doors. To those suffering from this nuisance it is a matter of no small interest how long the authorities will allow this pseudo bombardment...