Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...February 24, "Atomic Weights and Faraday's Law"; Thursday, February 27, "Molecular Structure"; Monday March 2, "The Periodic System of the Elements and the Kinetic Theory of Gases"; Thursday, March 5, "Atomic Volumes, and the Significance of their Changes"; Monday, March 9, "Atomic Compressibilities and the Heat of Chemical Reaction"; Thursday, March 12, "The Possible Decomposition of the Chemical 'Atom...
...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...spring sports are just as representative of the University and deserve just as loyal and spontaneous support. If we are gradually coming to look upon occasions such as the Yale baseball game as opportunities to watch a good game and criticize the players, it is time for a reaction. We should realize that a handful of men following a band and a cheering section of a few rows of seats are not conducive to brilliant playing. If organized cheering were abandoned, there would be much criticism, not a little of it by men who never cheer...
...McCall said that he believed that Harvard through its scholars had sent forth the most potent single force in the country. This quiet presentation of academic distinctions, he said, is far better than the acclaim of forty thousand people in the Stadium. There is soon to be a reaction in the world, and it will become popular to be a scholar. And this is right, for nothing in the world is more useful to one's country than scholarship...
...Restoration followed the Empire, and the Bourbons were again placed on the throne. They had learned nothing from their past experience, however, and again tried to re-establish the old tradition of the divine right of kings. Reaction followed--and the monarchy gave way to the Second Empire, which in turn made way for the present Republic...