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...soundness of any system of Philosophy; but we wish to point out one or two arguments in favor of an elective in the New Philosophy which appear to us convincing. Assuming that it is not philosophy, but the power to philosophize, that students are here taught, - and the distinguished head of our Philosophical Department has often assured us of this, - it becomes of less than vital importance what textbooks are used. But it is of vital importance that the men who study Philosophy should have minds open and receptive to all truth; that every capability of real, worthy enthusiasm should...
...pointed to a figure that had just appeared. It was a tall man, with a scraggly beard and still more scraggly hair. A shabby felt hat clung to the back of his head. His hands were in his pockets. The stump of an extinct cigar was in his mouth, and he was chewing it vigorously. His countenance was melancholy. His general appearance and his gait showed that he was anything but sober...
...Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance). Mr. Peirce, of '76, was to have read an essay on "Water on the Brain, or a Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There were others who seemed to be laboring under the difficulty of which a Junior member boldly complained, saying that his subject was such that he had been obliged to write a pack of prodigious nonsense, which he was going to inflict on us as a punishment for making...
...Harvard Advocate, a wretched and vilely printed sheet, has made its appearance. It hails from Harvard, Clay Co, Missouri. We advise our respected contemporary to head its issue with the words "None genuine except when accompanied...
...with monstrous head...