Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...California. On Thursday papers will be presented by Professor D. S. Jordan of the Leland Stanford Junior University, and by Professor S. Woolsey of Yale, on the question "To what extent should Professors Engaged in Research be Relieved from Instruction?" On Friday the subject for discussion will be "The Reaction of Graduate Work on the other Work of the University." At the final session, on Saturday, Professor A. f. West of Princeton will present a paper on "The Organization of the American University with Especial Reference to the Changes in the Conception of a Faculty...
...relief from the imperative "ought," said Mr. Crothers, comes recreation as a rest from excess of responsibility. Without play we should seen reach the limit of elasticity the power of healthful reaction after work which makes work possible. The touchstone for recreation is the word "wholesome." So long as recreation restores our bodily power and our capacity for seeing things in proportion, we need not inquire as to its ethics. Any recreation which is really restful can do no harm. The trouble today, the speaker said, is that play is made, not a rest from work, but an added burden...
...four were earned, the rest being the result, directly or indirectly, of the opposing team's ten errors. The University team also played a discouraging and listless fielding game, which would have proved disastrous against a strong team. Although this falling off may be attributed in part to a reaction after the Princeton game, at least two of the errors were inexcusable. A redeeming feature was the fine running catch of a long fly by Kernan in the fourth inning. The batting, after the first two innings, when Williams did the better work, was fairly satisfactory, although Westerveld...
...Brooks, president of the Home Consumers' League, spoke last night on "The Reaction Against the Trades Unions; the Open and Closed Shop," in the Randolph Hall Breakfast Room...
...this great civilization in so short a time completely disappeared. He went on to show how the Arabs themselves and the Numidian Berberes combined to form the Arabic empire; how, for two centuries this civilization completely dominated Spain; and how, at the end of the fifteenth century, the religious reaction which had taken place among the Mohammedans in the twelfth century led finally to the fall of Grenada. In conclusion, he asserted, that it was the struggle of the Spanish fanaticism against the fanaticism of the Berberes which made so wide the gulf between the Christians and the Mohammedans...