Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...laws is of importance. The argument based on the nature of man has changed from its earlier form of reliance upon innate ideas to a highly metaphysical attempt to present God as the necessary implication of knowledge, considered as knowledge. But both great lines of argument meet the problem of evil which neither has succeeded in solving. Natural theology may prove divine intelligence but so far it has not proved benevolence...
...problem is solved in the experience of those who, knowing the sorrow of the world, find it beautiful nevertheless, and even entertain towards it the sentiments usually considered religious. In the feelings which we have towards nature, of awe, trust, and comradeship, and toward one another in the world of humanity, this is a real natural religion, extra-confessional and extra-ecclesiastical, which is the most note-worthy factor in the religious world today and calls for interpretation. Natural theology finds God as the ultimate meaning and implication of this natural religion...
President Eliot will deliver the ninth of the series of lectures on "The Social Problem and Its Remedies" in New Lecture Hall on Friday, May 19. President Eliot will take as his subject "The Collectivists' Remedy." The lecture will be open to the public...
...obtained at some colleges by means of the Honor System, to which we strongly believe the Student Council should give full consideration. As already implied, the problem is to regulate undergraduate opinion so that the present all too frequent instances of cheating on the part of a small group of men, instead of affording amusement to the many, will be universally frowned upon. Class-room deception is amusing to some men today, because they do not feel as keenly as they should, the weight of moral responsibility. They do not consider a man who "cribs" under the present system essentially...
When every man in the Senior class receives, as he shortly will, a postal requesting his co-operation and assistance, he should without hesitation send in his name as a participant in the work. It is a big enough problem to be the prime interest of everyone that graduates. But that of course is neither expected nor asked; what is asked--and righteously--is that everyone make it his "way-side" work, that everyone have always open a social service...