Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more they hae they better our prospects for victory. If every man in college came out and tried for some athletic team our victories would be constant. Too many men, however, are afraid to come out, fearing that they will not be wanted or that there is no "athletic stuff" in them. As regards the first point they can be sure of a ready welcome on any athletic team, for generally the more candidates there are the better the final material is; and as regards the last point no man can tell what he can do till he tries...
...Pfeiffer delivered the second and final lecture on the Chemistry of Digestion before the Boylston Chemical Club in Boylston 9, last night. Dr. Pfeiffer described in his last lecture the various kinds of food-stuffs, and to some extent their course through the body. Last night he dealt with the Processes of Digestion and the Digestive Ferments. Dr. Pfeiffer began by dividing all chemical processes into five factors, as follows: The substance, the apparatus, the reagent, the nature of the reaction, and finally the nature of the products of reaction. These five factors are likewise present in all digestive processes...
...will interest all men who have ever paddled a canoe or rowed a boat on the turning and twisting Charles above Riverside and noticed the lonely stone tower on the left bank of the river. Miss Clark comes to the conclusion that indications of the lost Norumbega are such stuff as dreams are made...
...Huxley may be cited as all of them, at least thus far, idealists. The essence of this Analytic Idealism consists so far merely in pointing out that every truth must be recognized by us in terms of our own ideas, so that our world must appear to be "such stuff as Ideas are made of." The value of this elementary form of idealism appeared, however, in the second part of the discussion, when it was pointed out that one who still holds to the reality of a world external, not only to our own ideas, but to the ideas...