Word: falls
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...outsiders in this case was 47 6-10. So far the statistics seemed satisfactory enough, showing as they did, a gain of nearly 6 per cent in the outside representation of the University. Going a little further, however, I discovered that of the 692 men who entered in the fall of 1899, only 321, or 46 3-10 per cent, came from without the state. Here was a decrease of 1 3-10 per cent in a period of five years, for which I was at first quite unable to account. On thinking the matter over more carefully, however...
...argument of science which opposes the belief in immortality is first of all the inability of man to conceive a disembodied existence. This argument must fall before the consideration that immortal spiritual life, in its very nature is above the thorough comprehension of man and the inability of man to understand it cannot be taken as proof against its reality. The recent great discoveries of science itself have bared men's minds to the realization that there are whole worlds in nature whose presence men must acknowledge though they utterly fail to comprehend them...
Then, lastly, materialistic science falls back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical...
...been decided to give medals as prizes for the Freshman and University handicap track meets which were held this fall, and to give cups to the winners of the cross country run. The medals will be of three kinds: First prizes, silver medals, partly gilded; second prizes, plain silver medals; third prizes, bronze medals...
Horace John Hayden '60 was instantly killed on Friday by a fall from a window of his house in New York. Mr. Hayden was born in Boston in 1838 and graduated from Harvatd in 1860. During the Civil War he served as major in the 4th regiment of artillery and at the conclusion of the war joined the regular army. Later Mr. Hayden became connected with a western railroad, then with the Boston and Albany, and subsequently with the Cheaspeake and Ohio. About twenty years ago he was made general traffic manager of the New York Central and Hudson River...