Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...sermon was a comparison of man and the lower animal. The speaker demonstrated the superiority of the former by his advantages of mind, reason and will; recounted the love of God for man and ended in an appeal to man to think of the things now and to act upon them...
...become hardly bearable. The noise and odors arising from the cooking of food for seven hundred men, and the hurry and disorder of its distribution, make the hall now only endurable because it is cheap. Most men are obliged to board at the cheapest place, but that is no reason why they should be forced into eating in the midst of nearly all imaginable discomforts. And, moreover, it is only putting off the difficulty for a short time; the strain on the resources of the University will be just as great when, in a short time, the number...
...Harvard Co-operative Society was held in Sever Hall last evening with a thin attendance. Professor Taussig presided and reported that the directors advised making the annual dividend one-tenth less than two-thirds of the profits instead of a full two-thirds as at present. The reason of this is that the society's business is far out of proportion to its capital and the latter ought to be increased. The amount subtracted from the dividend will be added to the capital. This proposal was adopted. The constitution was then changed so as to abolish the office of treasurer...
...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...
...Brownell, whose recent "French Traits" have made him an authority, contributes an article on the French sculptors Rodin and Dalon. In this article Mr. Brownell has more definite material to work upon and consequently evolves his statements less from pure reason than he is apt to do in his criticisms of French manners and customs...