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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to account for this development of sympathy, or altruism. The doctrine of selection may apply in the parental instinct, as those having this instinct strongest would take best care of their offspring; but the wildest advocate of selection could not claim to account for the higher forms or altruism, extending to the whole world and beyond it. This higher development rests on an influence not visible in natural laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVINITY HALL LECTURES. | 3/28/1884 | See Source »

...present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account-the constitution of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at all recondite, very far from it, facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man of science will, I am sure, be willing to allow their due weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATTHEW ARNOLD ON EDUCATION. | 3/25/1884 | See Source »

...Bayard Bors, '87, has left college on account of over sever mental strain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND ROMOR. | 3/24/1884 | See Source »

...fence vault. For this seven men were entered. They vaulted in the following order: S. H. Fessenden, Jr., '86, T. C. Carey, '86, C. M. Walsh, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84. The bar was started at 5 feet 6 inches. Carey was the first to receive applause on account of his peculiarly graceful trim and the bar was raised several times before anyone dropped out. Bachelder was the first to fail. Howard followed, then Carey, Mandell and Fessenden. This left the two tallest men, Atkinson and Walsh, to compete for the first and second prizes. Walsh failed at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SECOND WINTER MEETING OF THE H. A. A. | 3/24/1884 | See Source »

...Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day, that they be ready to give an account of their proficiency therein, both in theoretical observations of language and logic, and in practical and spiritual truths, as their tutor shall require...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATERNAL GOVERNMENT. | 3/21/1884 | See Source »

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