Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Association game last Saturday afternoon on Jarvis field was not at all successful from a financial point of view. It is a pity that there was not enough interest taken to pay expenses, at least, butit only goes to show that college men do not care much for any but college sports. Those who managed the game did all that could be done to draw a crowd, but it is natural that very few persons can be persuaded to stand about on winter afternoon to watch a game which they knew nothing about...
...professor of Political Economy and also discuss certain features of the three years' plan. The Advocate doubts, as many do, the wisdom of the New England rule in athletics. Particularly in the case of the Mott Haven games the rule should yield because New York is the only central point of reunion for most of the colleges forming the Intercollegiate Association. And the meetings should be where the competitors are as numerous as possible, for in track and field athletics the standard is raised by increased competition...
...fact of experience, or of solving the concrete problems of life. In view of this defect of what one may call abstract Idealism, the present lecture undertakes to assume, at first, the Realistic attitude towards the world, and to re-examine the fundamental questions of philosophy from this point of view. This change of point of view will in the end prove instructive, and will lead to a return to Idealism in a fashion whereby that doctrine will be enriched, and rendered more concrete...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...
...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, so that our world must appear to be "such stuff as Ideas are made of." The value of this elementary form of idealism appeared, however, in the second part of the discussion, when it was pointed...