Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chaffee '08 for the measurement of the electrical changes induced in the retina of the eye by the action of light. The minute changes in electrical potential thus induced are amplified by special electrical apparatus to such a degree as to permit the measurement and recording of a reaction produced by the briefest exposure to a source of light equivalent to only one-millionth of a candle power...
...must be made a "safe place to live in" and the daily press echoing with the announcement that in the last 98 days there have been 91 murders in the Metropolitan district, the so-called "Crime Wave" is with us again. Is it the effect of the post-war reaction, reflecting general world wide lawlessness as a result of renewed acquaintance with the automatic? Are there laws enough at present against crime, or is the present machinery adequate to enforce them? Does the flaring publicity attendant on each daring hold-up serve to keep crime in check, or does...
...marries a patient whom he does not love in order to save her life, thereby abandoning temporarily a priceless opportunity for research work in Germany (needless to say this is before the war)-that is the "point of departure" which provides a couple of excellent acting parts. The reaction of the individuals to this sate of affairs as the woman regains health constitutes the play-simple, direct, and frequencly "gripping...
...attitude of the student body. There are undergraduates who will surely try to abuse the privilege; the Faculty is not ignorant of this. The fact that it believes there are enough men who really will benefit by the new ruling to make it worth while ought to arouse some reaction. If there is not a stimution of interest in matters intellectual, the Faculty will be slow to introduce further liberties. It has been proved time and again that the undergraduate community at large does very little current reading. It probably does very little of any kind outside of courses; here...
...review of the current Lampoon in a CRIMSON of last week was recently brought to my attention, and my reaction toward it. I think is natural. To my mind Mr. Code has rather overstepped the bounds of good sense in writing a "slam", as he himself confesses, in lieu of a formal review. It is with his attitude that I disagree, and I would like to call attention to several rather important lapses in which Mr. Code has indulged...