Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur on the earnest spirit of the students if extra days were added to a recess merely because there are very few recitations to attend to. This latter argument seems somewhat weak. Saturday afternoon has always been considered the proper time for recreation, surely no one can be expected to work on Sunday, so that men are called upon to give up two whole days at home in order to do regular work on Saturday morning...
Professor Royee has furnished the following sketch of the main argument of the lecture, not as a statement complete in itself, but as a memorandum for those who heard the discussion...
...argument for Idealism, as thus treated, has three stages. In the first is expounded what one may call the view of Anaryncal Idealism, such as forms the basis of Berkeley's theory. This Analtical Idealism is a relatively elementary doctrine, which is stated by thinkers who are other wise of very different schools. Berkeley, Fichte, John Stuart Mill, and Professor Huxley may be cited as all of them, at least thus far, idealists. The essence of this Analytic Idealism consists so far merely in pointing out that every truth must be recognized by us in terms of our own ideas...
...predicted that the next great struggle in defence of higher education would be fought on the abbreviation of the A. B. course from four years to three. As his prophecy had come true he wished to state certain reasons why the course should not be abbreviated. His first arguments had to do with the present low standard of requirements for admission to Harvard. To quote his own words: "In consequence of their flexibility, and of the provision for maxima and minima. many a student now enters Harvard College who cannot pass the entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan...
...Sidgwick of Cambridge, Professor Hoffding of Copenhagen University, Felix Adler and and William M. Salter. Professor Royce contributes a review of the "Way out of Agnosticism" by Dr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot, formerly instructor in Philosophy at Harvard. Professor Royce characterizes Dr. Abbot's "modern" and "American" method of philosophical argument as essentially vicious and injurious...