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...propose to publish notes. Students find it to their advantage to review their courses by the best possible methods, and if each instructor should publish a short abstract or outline of his course, this would be more satisfactory than complete notes, and would help to solve the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1891 | See Source »

...worst features in the problem that confronts us is the extreme difficulty of separating those who wish to work and earn an honest living from those who are nothing but "dead beats" and intend to remain such. For this very reason it is hard to interest people in the poor. It rarely happens that a poor person who is known to deserve help fails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Brooks's Lecture. | 1/21/1891 | See Source »

...concluding lecture of the course undertakes the application of Idealism to the ethical and religious problems. Of these in particular the problem as to the worth of life, and the existence of evil, is taken, not as if it were the only great problem of the group, but because, in the discussions of it, are brought together a number of important considerations of a moral and religious type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course on Modern Thinkers. | 1/15/1891 | See Source »

...only solution of our problem is to be looked for, then, in what may be called an Ethical Optimism, where the existence of evil in the universe is held to bear the same relation to the goodness of the moral order, that, in the individual good man, his evil impulses bear to the moral will that conquers them. With such a moral optimism our study of Hegel has in some measure made us acquainted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course on Modern Thinkers. | 1/15/1891 | See Source »

...from satisfactory unless the man finally chosen is very carefully selected. This selection must be left in the hands of the Boat Club officers if anything like satisfaction is to be attained. It is a matter in which only men intimately connected with rowing should interfere. The problem now is-who can be found, graduate or otherwise, in whom the crew can have confidence, and who has shown his ability to handle an eight-oared crew. There are two classes of oarsmen, professional and amateurs, and this instructor must come under one of these heads. Experience has shown in many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1891 | See Source »