Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there. An acquaintance with William James, whom he met at a psychological congress in Paris in 1889, led to a call to a professorship of experimental psychology in this University, and he began teaching here in the fall of 1892. The academic years 1895-96 and 1896-97 were spent in Freiburg again, on leave of absence, and on his return to Cambridge in 1897 he was appointed Professor of Psychology. Professor Muensterberg received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901, LL.D. from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1904, and Litt.D. from Lafayette College...
Some of the greatest men of history have mistaken their vocations and found their true work only after false starts. Goethe began to study for the law and schiller spent some years as any army surgeon. Sir Francis Bacon believed that his fame would rest of his career as a lawyer and statesman. Bourne-Jones did not begin to paint until he was nearly thirty years old. In our own time we have seen Mr. Booth Tarkington who aspired to be an artist emerge as one of the leading American authors...
...athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension of the new art, the new politics, the new freedom. Study is alien to the college; it would intrude on time that might be worthily spent in fashionable activities and no modern faculty would for an instant encourage it. If athletics is not the first aim of college, why is the football coach paid three times, four times, the salary of the professor of Greek...
Lines was a graduate of Dartmouth College, receiving his A.B. degree with the class of 1912. He prepared for college at the Anglo-Saxon School of Paris, and during his boyhood spent a great deal of his time in France...
...Sargent, who is one of the greatest of living painters, is now in Boston overseeing the placing of his large new decorative religious paintings in the Boston Public Library. He spent last summer in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where he painted two large landscapes in oil, one being the recent gift to the Fogg, Museum, the other having just been added to Mrs. John L. Gardner's collection at Fenway Court. The Alumni Bulletin comments as follows upon this recent gift...