Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college library. After a few introductory remarks on the importance of the library in regard to the other departments of the college, the lecturer directed all his attention to the card catalogue and the manner of using it. The card catalogue is divided into two parts-an author catalogue and a subject catalogue. In the author catalogue, each book is entered under its author's name in alphabetical order, his collective works, and then his single works. The different editions of his works are mentioned chronologically, and all their translations also. If an author is unknown, a titled reference...
Periodicals come under the first word of the titles. Society publications have the society as author's name. Some books, as various editions of the Bible, and the Greek and Latin authors, are not in the author catalogue, but are grouped together in the subject catalogue. Subject catalogue is also alphabetical. The idea is that every book be put under its most special head, and the specific heads be grouped under the larger main heads. There are 400 main headings in the subject catalogue. It was then shown how to make any special research by means of the subject catalogue...
...Boston Bridge" are the opening verses of the number and are very happily conceived. "Jerusha Howe," spinster, is a good story, and stands in interesting contrast with "Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this...
...those young men and should have been very glad if the author had explained what was meant by the "scientific method" in that connection. He states that the human mind has but one way of learning anything, and that the method which he advocates is the only method in philosophy which can yield a ground of settled convictions. This method would modernize philosophy, he believes. Now, if we young men are taught anything, it is that we should seek as many independent points of view as possible. It is true that one of the ablest philosophers in Boston recently stated...
...shall adopt the realistic hypothesis, and believe in the objectivity of relations. In his article in the Monthly he implies that any sort of idealistic philosophy is incompatible with the recognition of objective relations. Now I have no doubt that all of the young men of Harvard whom the author addressed especially, have hitherto had the impression that some of the forms of idealism are as consistent with the scientific method, at least as ordinarily defined, as either realism or dualism can be. Objectivity is not necessarily material. But if we err on this point, we are willing...