Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper shell in which the Yale University crew will row Harvard arrived on Wednesday of last week. It was built by Waters of Troy, N. Y., and is a beauty. It is just sixty feet in length, is very light, and is somewhat narrower and deeper than the boat used last season. The rigging, with one or two slight changes, is substantially the same as last season. The crew tried it on Thursday for the first time, and Captain Cowles expressed himself as well pleased with the boat, which is in every respect satisfactory. The crew is now rowing with...
...hardly necessary, as course 2 gives sufficient elementary instruction in that line of study. The advanced courses for special investigation in metaphysics, ethics and psychology, are more elaborate, and are more systematically arranged than formerly. Past students in Philosophy 4 will no doubt reap much advantage from the deeper study of ethical subjects which they can obtain by taking course 8, which will not be confined as previously, to the writings of Hegel. We are glad to see, on the whole, that the improvements in the important department of philosophy have kept pace with the general increase of efficiency which...
...treat undergraduates as boys or men?" be settled, for many years to come, by a few irresponsible larkers acting for their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat...
...Europe has been so great that many have estimated that, if the present wholesale cutting is continued the Rhine, Elbe and other important streams will become unnavigable. The evidence of history is so marked that there can be no doubt but that the earth's crust is becoming deeper and that the cutting of forests has aided in this process. Governments have seen this and have established forestry bureaus for the preservation of the forests...
...vast storehouse of possible amusements, and read, think and write, not in pursuit of truth, but for diversion. They all have written books; one or two of them have written well: but they are satisfied with their reputation for cleverness, and make no effort to reach anything deeper or higher...