Word: wording
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sensation" of the number, if I may be permitted that word, is, and probably was intended to be, Mr. Collier's attack on the lecture system. "The situation is very much as if physical culture instructors should devote all their attention to feeding their pupils on the best possible nourishment, and make no attempt to give the pupils exercise." The limitations of space forbid the reviewer to enter upon an extended discussion of this incisive and cogent criticism of the Harvard lecture system. It is unquestionably destined to receive the wide and careful attention which it merits...
...lecture M. Boutroux pointed out that the three postulates of science are: a world real, well ordered, and admitting of novelties; but science cannot account for these, save by referring them to chance, whereas we have seen that human consciousness, considered as feeling, attributes a true meaning to the word reality. An analogous justification of the postulate of orderly relation is supplied by another form of human consciousness, intelligence. By this is meant, not scientific intelligence, but living intelligence, which creates relations of harmony between real beings...
Professor James says of M. Boutroux, "The word 'liberal' seems to have been coined especially to apply to him, so sympathetically has he entered, into the most diverse states of mind interpreting scientific men, philosophers and religious men to each other. His own way of thinking has many points of resemblance to what is known as pragmatism in this country. His effort, since the publishing of his first book, has been to show that concrete life exceeds our powers of abstract formulation, that what we see, feel and think in the world of reality are only approximations which the intellect...
...revelation in some courses where a certain amount of reading aloud is necessary, to hear the baiting, inarticulate efforts of many of the students. In fact, in some literature courses the instructor is obliged to read every word of the text aloud himself, because the men in the class are so incapable in this respect that the sense is completely obliterated. This inability to read aloud is not only to be found among undergraduates, but is conspicuously present among people in almost all walks of life. Why this part of a man's education should be so utterly neglected, unless...
More than a passing word of gratitude is due the Metropolitan Water Board for the promptness and fairness with which it has compensated the Co-operative for damages caused by the bursting of a water main in Harvard square during the Christmas recess. It is of course true that the Co-operative Society had a legal right to compensation; but private claims against public authority are too often enforceable only by tedious and costly litigation; and it is a matter for congratulation that the Co-operative, in this adjustment, has had to deal with one of the most efficient...