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...address of Mr. Chase of the Watch and Ward Society delivered at the Liberal Club yesterday and quoted to some extent in this morning's CRIMSON there is revealed an emotionalism verging on the incredible, yet nevertheless tangent to the same circle of sincere religious experience known to less fervent minds. That a majority of the college will thus esteeem it is improbable. Youth, after all, is not essentially liberal...
...large university there is a tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
...better reason. Just outside the earth's atmosphere, he says, is a wall of crystalline particles of nitrogen. This is what makes the sky blue. It also explains, he thinks, why radio waves follow the contour of the earth, instead of flying off from it at a tangent. This would seem to indicate that radio communication with other planets will always be impossible...
...text itself, chapter after chapter which gives early promise of being interesting and fruitful degenerates either into a mass of facts or goes off on a tangent of generalization which renders the information useless for practical purposes. When, however, Professor wise divorces himself from his charts and diagrams, he writes in a simple concise style. So in the last chapter of his book, dealing not with amateur dramatics but with the subject of the "Dramatic Value in Teaching" he illustrates the value of the psychology of the drama in teaching in a small rural school. He shows that making...
...this implies quite inevitably another tangent of contact between Mr. Benet and Swinburne, namely Mr. Benet's delight in taming words, in spurring and curvetting them to his desire. It is the sheer zest of youth, for Mr. Benet is young...