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Dante, according to Professor Grandgent, believed love to be a type of perfect equilibrium and God the embodiment of justice and harmony, and detected symmetry also in the events of history and in the facts of geography. He believed in an absolutely round earth, the center of the universe, in which the heavenly bodies moved in patterns of absolute symmetry. He believed likewise in a moral system of unerring justice, proceeding from God himself...
...factor that can be measured as carefully as weight, lung capacity, or blood pressure. Education is human engineering, and should be carried on like other sciences, with the use of units such as the foot-pound, the volt, or the calorie. The exact units to be used for each type of mental test have not yet been fully determined, but when they are, our capacity and achievement will be recorded by means of scientifically accurate processes. Professor Thorndike does not give the details of the method, but states that in the "Contemporary Civilization" course, taken by all freshmen at Columbia...
...There are, however, other phenomena in physics of coordinate importance with those of geometry, namely, the phenomena of vibrating systems, of which the pendulum is a familiar example. The simplest type of oscillatory motion is governed by a differential equation of the second order, and two of the solutions of this equation are the functions sin x and cos x. By means of the differential equation the leading properties of these functions can be deduced with ease, and thus the foundations of trigonomemtry are laid...
...historical survey of social service work, telling of the prominent figures in this line and the magnificent work which they have accomplished. Professor James Ford '05, of the Social Ethics Department, will point out the benefits of the work to the community, and the widespread need for this type of service. Two undergraduates who have taken a prominent part in the social service work at the University, James J. Lee '24, who will tell of the benefits of the work to the worker himself, and Charles K. Cummings '23, who will describe some of his personal experiences in social service...
...entering the College when things were really back to normal. R. K. Kane '22, captain of the University football team, asked the class to be loyal to Harvard and told of the unusual set of football coaches working with the Freshman team. The difference between the "getting" and "giving" type was described by Mr. Tibbetts, who said that Phillips Brooks House would be glad to receive the help of the latter type...