Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor T. N. Carver, of the economics department, spoke last night in Brooks House at the meeting of the Religious Union on "Religion from the Point of View of the Student of Sociology." He discussed at length the function of religion in social development, maintaining that religion as a moral...
First of all the student demands that his religion shall be rational, that it shall have the solemnizing power of simplicity and truth. Then too, he demands the opportunity of growth. Perhaps his religion is best characterized by his desire for active service. Philanthropy is the college man's way...
In general the replies, though in many ways unsatisfactory, tend to confirm the wisdom of electives in Harvard College. The number of men who favor certain prescribed studies is large, but the courses prescribed are in most cases in English; History, Government and Economics, or Science and some modern language...
. . "Concerning the conditions of the progress of the Standard Oil Company, one must say: they have no rational sanction which can decide ultimate judgment; they were simply inevitable.