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...lecturer began the comparison of the two, by saying that if the emotion of sympathy be, as many have thought, the true basis of moral action, then the utilitarian view would appear to be the only right one. Sympathy with suffering would increase with the suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only...
President Eliot, we learn, wishes it to be understood that the faculty is far from giving up its project of the inter-collegiate regulation of athletics. The faculty, it is claimed, were chiefly influenced in reconsidering their recent action by the attitude of other colleges, which seemed to be generally unfavorable to the regulations as they stand. It will again make determined efforts to secure the passage of the regulations in a modified form, however, so that they will meet with the approval of enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy...
...trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have approved the action of the faculty in rejecting the athletic resolutions...
...railway ride of four hours all told, all but half an hour of it in an express train and palace car, in addition a good hotel to stop at on arrival, such a hardship, especially when compared with the journey to Princeton the Harvard team makes every year? The action of the Harvard delegates at last year's meeting, in heading a movement for Dartmouth's expulsion is liable to be interpreted by outsiders as the result of pique, because Harvard was defeated by such a small college in both base-ball games of the preceding year...
...desire to retract, in part, our editorial remarks of yesterday reflecting upon the action of one of the instructors in the Latin department, as we find that they were founded on misinformation and do serious injustice to the instructor whose methods were criticised, which we sincerely regret. In our item which stated that members of Latin 2 answering "Not prepared" would not be again called on during the year, we should have also stated that those giving a sufficient excuse before the recitation would not be subjected to this rule. This throws an entirely new light on the whole matter...