Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...further argues that the proposed change is nowhere demanded. American students, (even those at Cambridge) do not want it; neither do the Harvard alumni, or authorities of other American colleges, or the preparatory schools, or any religious bodies demand this change. The movement is self originated at Harvard. In answer to the argument that the age of Harvard students ought to be reduced, he suggests that even now the men are none too old for the self-government that is placed in their hands, or for a thorough understanding of principles of philosophy, ethics, and sociology. In case the growth...
Very soon after this letter was written another letter appeared in the Post from an instructor in a preparatory school. He does not pretend to answer all of President Warren's arguments; he devotes himself mainly to the point of the alleged easy requirements for admission to Harvard. He says that he cannot find the "provisions for maxima and minima" of which President Warren speaks. He finds that there are four groups of subjects allowed at admission examinations and that the differences between these groups have mainly to do with Latin and Greek. Otherwise the requirements are pretty rigid...
...Kant's first answer is: Things in Themselves are of necessity unknown to us. We can know in a theoretical sense only the things that appear to our senses, i.e., the Phenomena of the World of Show. Neither common sense, nor science, nor theology, can, with theoretical assurance, carry us beyond the world as it seems to our human powers of observation and experience...
...lecture which will be given this evening by Professor Channing on Methods of Teaching History, is evidence that the college is trying to answer the call for more instruction in science of pedagogy. Last year, it will be remembered, in the columns of one or two well known periodicals, as well as in our own, attention was called to the lack of opportunity for men who intend to teach to get the benefit of the experience of college instructors. It was shown that a man may understand a subject thoroughly and yet be unable to impart his knowledge to others...
...history man has been asking himself and the universe the vital usetions "What am I? " "Where am I to go after death?" Man is not so constituted that he cannot in any wise answer these questiens, but God has ordained that he shall be able to answer them only by divine revelation...