Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...denied. There has come with the elective system a noticeable difference in the way of living and in the general influence of the University on the individual. Yet we hesitate to admit that there is any real decadence of the "Harvard spirit." It is not strange that the reaction from the old conservative way of thinking should at first go at little too far in the other direction. In later years this decade will probably mark an important epoch in the history of Harvard. We are in the midst of this change and can hardly appreciate its true bearing either...
...Mammals and Birds a portion of the vertebral column known as the sacrum, although originally composed of separate bones, becomes anchylosed. Is this condition the result of mechanical action and reaction...
...Puritan regime was overthrown and the reaction was strong against solemnity and restraint. The succeeding literature showed little reverence or earnestness, but bubbled over with jollity...
Charles B. Bliss, a student in the graduate department of the Yale psychological laboratory, has perfected an invention which is of unusual importance, not only in delicate investigations on mental reaction, but of considerable practical value to electricians generally. While experimenting on the subject of the distraction, he devised a machine which solves the difficult problem of making or breaking two or more electrical currents at the same instant. Hitherto Ewald's key for recording the time of mental reaction has been used, but it will be replaced in laboratory and practical use by the Bliss Multiple Key, which...
...today, however, the first signs of the reaction against individualism. Man is waking up to the realization that each person is only an atom in society and must find his place in its organism. With this thought noted in the minds of the people, mariage is secure, for it rests, not so much on the strictness of law, as on the tradition of reverence and instinct of respect with which people regard it. Such feeling is destroyed no more surely by city-living, with its drifting home-life or even absolute homelessness, than on the ostentation of the luxurious rich...