Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that it is too reductive and too absolute. They hold that results derived from historical research are more reliable than those from a priori principle. They wish to join the question of economics with ethics and sociology, and not consider it as regarding personal interests alone. The author points out that the real difference in the two schools is only a difference of words, and that in truth their aims are the same. The many economic problems that are clamoring for attention should cause the two schools to join forces instead of wasting time disputing over theoretical questions...
...remainder of the year, there will no third hour exercises in English A. In place of these exercises a theme must be left at 9 Thayer on or before May 29. The subject must be an outline or summary of some important work of an author treated in Professor Hill's lectures. The theme must be from four to six pages in length...
...have been so well portrayed. The essay on Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, though instructive, well written, and displaying in its argument original thought, seems somewhat out of place, in the field which the Advocate has chosen. "Carmen" needs a second reading to be appreciated. The author's conception is delicate; his expression, however, is somewhat obscure, and at times strains after unnatural words. Such compounds as "scorn-enwrapped" will hardly bear close scrutinizing. The remaining poem of this number, "A Dialogue of Head and Heart" is better than the average Advocate verse. Its method is graceful...
...Thought Transference" is a clear statement of the present condition of the work done by the Society for Psychical Research. The author does not attempt to express personal views on the subject, but lays the facts before the reader and leaves him largely to his own conclusions. The time has come when intelligent men can no longer close their eyes to such questions...
...poem, "My Beloved," by Mr. Sempers, is a highly successful attempt. There are few men in college who dare attempt such high themes, and the author is to be commended for his creditable work...