Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: "Ought the United States to construct an interoceanic canal...
...clear why the German roads have cost twice as much as our roads. There has been more paid for fences and the like, but not so much for roadbeds. In Australia the price of raw materials is cheaper, and there are no heavy grades to construct. In both countries speed and comfort cannot compare with that in America. The waste in construction in this country is balanced by inefficiency of public service in Germany...
...exists "between science and religion, which nobody has yet succeeded in bridging" - oh! - and in trying to leap it, has brought up in the depths between the two sides, from which he can climb up neither. Christianity itself recognizes the impossibility of any such bridge as he undertakes to construct: "Ye cannot serve two masters...
...members of the boat club and the various crews, is still far from complete. The shower-baths, dressing-rooms, etc., are not in a good condition, as would be expected in the boat-house of Harvard University. Seeing as we do wherein the old house is lacking, we can construct the new house on a greatly improved plan. Of course the boat club is dependent entirely on the munificence of interested persons, and it is to be hoped that the disposition of any gift that may be made to the university in the future will be left in the hands...
Professor Palmer announces a change in the management of Philosophy 4. According to the elective pamphlet, the course is defined as "Systematic Ethics. - An attempt to construct dogmatically a theory of ethics." It was the intention of Professor Palmer that the ethical systems of the English and German philosophers should be studied, compared and criticised, and that an attempt should be made by the instructor and class to form dogmatically a new theory of ethics. This plan has been changed, and the course will be conducted as it has been in the past. The works of the great German...