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Until 2 o'clock on November 13th, the Yale football team as such was universally considered non est. Before that moment the Elis had made a decidedly unenviable record. Woefully disorganized and four times defeated, they had served as little more than playthings in a theorist's football laboratory. Hinkey had not made good...
...noted professors who delivered lectures. Five of the most distinguished men of Berlin University at this time were Curtius, Helmholz, Mommsen, Grimm, and Zupitza. Curtius was the famous Greek archaeologist, who had made valuable discoveries of classic temples and statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar, was one of his earliest teachers. In Strassburg and Heidelberg he came under the direct influence of such...
...leaven of the number is Mr. Barlow's "Religion of the Beautiful." Though this aesthetic theorist hangs his philosophy upon the identity of beauty and fitness, between which Aristotle once made a serviceable if relatively forgotten distinction, his eagerness gives his article a readable quality which cannot be credited to some other writers on the same subject...
...post-season football harvest is a crop of all-America teams; from East and West, from real editors and near coaches, come suggestions for a combination of the mightiest of the mighty. Yet what do they all avail? The Western theorist's team is an all-Western team with a couple of easterners as a sop to eastern criticizers, and vice versa with the eastern theorist, only here it has been the custom to have at least a majority of players from the critic's own college. It is all so much wasted effort. Those who could do the best...
...Edward Atkinson gave a most interesting talk on consumption before the Finance Club yesterday evening. Mr. Cole introduced Mr. Atkinson to the club as an economist against whom the popular cry that a political economist is a theorist could never be raised and this description was fully justified by the talk which followed, which was nothing if not practical...