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...general point of view of the lecture, the particular topics next discussed were: (1) The objection that the modern doctrine of evolution, in assigning a "low origin" to all significant things, deprives the world of all higher and ideal significance. (2) The objection that empirical students of evolution are often unaware of the teleological and ideal nature of their own presuppositions, so that it seems doubtful whether their presuppositions actually have this ideal character. To both these objections the same response was made. The doctrine of evolution has its purely naturalistic as well as its teleological side; it is essentially...
...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...
...valuable, consisting of a silver cup to each member of the victorious team. The field is to be set one hundred and twenty yards long by sixty wide, somewhat larger than usual to insure a good passing game and to prevent the ball from going out of play so often...
...matter of the pay of professors has been very often discussed by the trustees of the college, but it has never until lately been thought possible to put them all on an even basis, much less arrange the pay of all the instructors, tutors, etc., in the same way. A supposed or real unevenness of ability among those already employed and candidates for vacant positions, has been the cause of the trouble, and in many cases, where one man is paid $1,000 a year, another in the same grade has been paid $2, 000. To clear away this patchwork...
...former times it was possible to make a direct, vigorous complaint if things were not satisfactory, but now the duties of the officials are so strictly defined, that a man finds himself referred from one official to another until finally he often gives it all up in despair...