Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot will talk to the new members of the university to-morrow evening, in Sever 11, at 7.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Rational Management of Life at the University."
"To fly in the face of outside opinion once more," says the writer, "I would not hesitate to affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime...
Let us consider a single case; suppose a student, while a mere boy, has consented to take his father in with him to the paternal business, but that the wisdom which comes with long continued meditation shows him his mistake. He has learned the fallacy of his early reasoning. The...
The movement in Harvard College against compulsory attendance at morning prayers has again failed, the petition of the remonstrants having been rejected by the corporation. The petition asked simply that undergraduates over twenty-one years of age should be allowed to exercise their option in the matter, and that those...
Whether this explanation be a good one or not, the facts remain the same. No theory about free will can alter the teaching of experience or take from us our energies and desires. But if we believe that our actions and characters are wholly determined by physical causation, we must...