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...persons afflicted with the malady are perfectly normal, except "for a desire to write endless rows of ciphers and engage in computations more involved than the most difficult problems in logarithms...
...case of articles has just been sent to Beirut College, in Beirut, Syria, where the Phillips Brooks House Association maintains several missionaries. Destitute German students in Marburg University, Marburg, Germany, will receive another consignment. A third shipment has been sent to Utica, Mississippi for the students in the state normal and industrial institute, which has recently been destroyed by fire...
...best against us, but he adapted his generalship to the condition of the field, and his judgment was excellent. On a dry field he might have been much better. On the other hand, he might have been a disappointment. No one can say what would have happened under normal weather conditions. That is what makes the season in a way seem wasted. Yale had a good team. She thought it was her year. She deserved her chance to prove it. We thought that we could stop her, and we deserved our chance. Conditions forced the preconceived plans of both teams...
...starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even if you expert does see a man play once, he may get a wrong impression. The man may be playing far above or far below his normal game...
...improve the race negatively by the elimination of 'defective germ plasm and the selection of superior parents, will be supplanted by the positive or "euthenic" element of building up and strengthening good traits and dispositions in the individual. Thus a race of supermen will develop naturally from normal parents...