Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...already a respectable number of papers treating subjects of general interest to modern language students has been secured. The programme of the meeting on December 1, as announced in the calendar, embraces papers on "The French in Shakespeare," on "The Liberal Student Movement in Germany," and on "A Problem in Middle English." At the second meeting, which probably will be held on Dec. 15, among other subjects Didert's influence upon Goethe, the names of the English Alphabet, and David Mallet's literary forgeries will be considered. The meetings will be open to all members of the University interested...
...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...speak; that he was not a prohibitionist; that he denied the right of any man or body of men to prescribe to any other man or body of men what they should or should not eat, drink or wear. There are several undisputed facts which bear on the temperance problem. First, alcohol and distilled liquors are poisonous and not foods; second, wines and other fermented liquors are not foods in the ordinary sense of the term, and neither serve to build up issues nor to warm the body; third, they do however arrest decay of the tissues, so that they...
...Cary building is carried on, we have heard other complaints of a similar nature concerning other college property. In all cases it has been nearly impossible to find out what person has charge of the buildings on the University grounds. Every one who has tried to solve the problem has encountered the same difficulties; he has been sent from one officer to another, he has found a great number of men who might have charge, but no one who will take any responsibility on himself. It is strange that some one officer of the University cannot be found whose duty...
commodations at Memorial, and the three years course. The editors suggest a new dining hall as the best solution of the Memorial problem. They argue in favor of the three years course that the Overseers are too conservative, that the change is only a development of the elective system, and that it will not lessen the value...