Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Gas Turbine Problem." Dr. H. N. Davis. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...problem which philosophy now has to solve is to find the true relation between the scientific statement of facts and the truly philosophical reflection upon the reality of the spiritual world...
...American college is still on trial; if it can evolve a system which will develop broad-minded processes it will succeed; but the problem is at present complicated in the larger universities by the presence of professional schools, which, by drawing men away from college in three or even two years, shorten the period in which they have the opportunity for acquiring this wide scope, and thereby stunt their intellectual development...
...theatres imposes upon the art of the dramatist--that he must scale all his pictures of life to the measure of about two hours and a half. Clearly things do not happen with just that degree of complexity which makes possible the stating and solving of a problem within any one limit of time. So we are ready to welcome such a departure as enables us to see this week at the Bijou Dream Theatre a piece written to be played in half an hour...
...time were given to the characters to arrive at the conclusions on which they act, and to the audience to realize that these conclusions are inevitable. But one resents being hurried; and the chief impression carried away is that the conception of character and the interest of the problem are both powerful enough to make it regrettable that the author did not take time and room enough to be convincing. Yet, in spite of indifferent acting, the performance is not dull; and the success is sufficient to make us hope that this opportunity for dramatic experiment on a modest scale...