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...University squad of 50 men worked out regularly for five weeks last fall, a good opportunity for examination of material being offered by the 26 games which were played. Owing to the vacancies caused by graduation, Captain Wingate and Coach Sexton are confronted with a difficult problem in the building up of a strong team, in spite of the fact that there is much good material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SQUAD PRACTICE | 3/3/1913 | See Source »

...Social Problem Lecture by President Eliot, in New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Calendar | 3/1/1913 | See Source »

Professor Bergson said that philosophy was born of the imperative need of man to react against the impression of universal death. It is a defensive reaction of the psychological organism which finds no satisfaction in considering events merely as a succession of sentiments, sensations, and ideas. Its problem is to determine in what the longed-for stability consists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERGSON'S IDEA OF REALITY | 2/25/1913 | See Source »

...philosophy thus to give up its search for stability? The new "philosophy of change" does not think so. It solves the problem by eliminating it; stability is to be found in change itself. This means that we must reverse the current conception of what is stable and what is changing. We erroneously consider movement as more complicated than immobility. On the contrary every immobility is due to two simultaneous movements. The table appears motionless to one only because one moves with it. Movement, however, is indivisible. Movement, or change, then, is the sought for stability, and thus we reach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERGSON'S IDEA OF REALITY | 2/25/1913 | See Source »

...Boston Chamber of Commerce is anxious to obtain college men to help solve the problem of the crowded traffic conditions in Boston. The Chamber of Commerce has been studying this for a year and a half, and had some students working for them last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Men to Study Traffic | 2/25/1913 | See Source »