Word: mind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...educated at Owens College, Manchester and Cambridge, and subsequently studied medicine. He has been at Oxford for many years. During the war he served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The books which he has written include "introduction to Social Psychology," published in 1908: "Body and Mind," published in 1911; and "Pagan Tribes of Borneo," published in 1912. The first two are especially well-known among psychologists in this country...
...literary effect which is always convenient, conventional and unassailable. In this way he launches a spirited attack on Mr. Wilson, the Peace Conference, and all who feel like letting the Germans down lightly, in a way that would delight an Old Guard Republican. He leaves no doubt in the mind of the reader as to his political leanings...
Undergraduates of the University who are planning to take part in athletics during the summer should bear in mind the sections of the eligibility code in force at the University, Yale, and Princeton which appears below: A printed memorandum of these rules has been sent by the Harvard Athletic Association to all candidates for teams who are now in the University...
...scheme of electives reminds us of the approach of the time for choosing studies for next year, and brings to mind one of the tactical feelings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information...
...preparation now being made for various graduation festivities calls to mind the varied history of these exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled...