Word: statements
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...opposition to the classic school of economics. It points out with clearness the causes for the dissatisfaction many feel with the methods and aims of the English school in the main, and seemingly fruitless discussions of economics today, and the mistakes made by economists in the past. A concise statement of the English method is made and the criticisms on it given. The new schoolmen find its faults to be in the fact that it is too reductive and too absolute. They hold that results derived from historical research are more reliable than those from a priori principle. They wish...
Professor Peabody's statement that the growth of athletics had tended to improve the general tone of the college forms a most refreshing contrast to the illiberal attitude of the Overseers. They seem to think that the time given to athletics is so much taken from study, while, as a matter of fact, it is just that class which is naturally least inclined to study that enters most heartily into athletics. The "training" which these men have to keep is certainly beneficial, and often restrains the thoughtless from actions to which they would otherwise be inclined. The influence upon...
...editors of the Monthly desire to keep for their magazine a literary reputation they have only to follow the precedent so well sustained in the present number. The opening essay written by Mr. F. G. Peabody and entitled "Religion in a University" is very opportune. It is a frank statement of Harvard on the question of voluntary and compulsory attendance at religious services. The essay is forcible, directly to the point, and convincing. It reads like a final statement of the matter, and we hope that it will meet the eyes of those who have been hasty in condemning what...
...report, however, makes one definite statement, namely, that "students have been known to hiss the good play of their guests and to cheer their failures." Mr. Storey writes me that the committee took no "formal evidence" as to this and are "unable to give any such definite dates" as would enable one to make an independent investigation. I have made what investigation I have been able from several persons who have attended all the important matches that occurred in Cambridge for some years past, and who thoroughly understood the games. It is hard to prove a negative...
Under the heading of "Correspondence," an undergraduate has presented a side of the baseball question not often taken by Harvard students. On the whole, the statement is fair, but some of the arguments for the writer's side of the case he has failed to bring forward, thus making his plea unnecessarily weak. Though the majority of us at Harvard do not agree with the writer, it is well for both parties to see this side presented...