Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Walter C. Camp, the veteran Yale player, will have an article, entitled "Hints to Foot-Ball Captains," in the January number of Outing. The subject is dealt with from a thoroughly practical point of view...
Professor Royce of Harvard followed with the report of the committee on Phantasms and Presentiments. His report embraced four types of cases, which he characterizes as follows: First comes the cases that possess only a subjective interest, as illustrating curious events in the inner life of some people. Secondly, I shall describe a few experiments that are probably to be explained as instances of what is generally called "unconscious cerebration." Thirdly, I shall give a part of the evidence of the existence of a not generally recognized species of mental experience, which stimulates presentiment, but which is not presentiment. Finally...
...this year. As has been stated before a large number of lectures on topics of general history is to be given this winter at New Haven for the benefit of Yale men. A similar movement has been started at Princeton. The course will be inaugurated by Professor Tripp. His subject is "Historic Portraitures...
...Theodore Roosevelt contributes an article on "The Immigration Problem." While the article contains little that is new on the subject and is not noteworthy for the force of its suggestions, it is animated by a spirit sooner or later to be adopted by all true Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...
Under. the title "The Ascetic of La Beauce," Mr. Dodge describes with characteristic touch the old cathedral of Chartres. It is evident that the writer has carefully studied the subject of his theme, but his style is too sympathetic fully to impress our minds with the sternness of Chartres...