Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brilliant centre of philosophical study, combining in itself remarkable men of widely differing tendencies; William James, psychologist and physiologist, whose pragmatism attempts before all to demonstrate the effective existence of an element of novelty in the course of phenomena, and in consequence, the value and power of action; Royce, who combines a certain pragmatism with a symbolic logic, and seeks in the conditions of action, the explanation of the fundamental principles of the logic itself; Muensterberg, the learned psychologist, with a leaning toward the idealism of Fichte; Santayana, who seeks under action immobility, and under new phenomena the eternal...
When this matter was brought before the committee a few months ago it was rejected, largely because the action of the Governing Boards of the University during the past few years has rendered uncertain both the continuance of intercollegiate contests and the income derived therefrom...
Although the action of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Governing Boards upon the suggestions of the committee does not fall strictly within the period covered by this report, yet the changes are now in substance complete. The object to be attained was two-fold: first, to require every student to make a choice of electives that will secure a systematic education, based on the principle of knowing a little of everything and something well; second, to make the student plan his college curriculum seriously, and plan it as a whole. This is pre-supposed by the theory...
German as all this is, alike in outward aspect and inner spirit, in both speech and action, it is universally human, comprehensible, and touching, while the exotic setting, as it seems to us in American, of the Karlsberg court and the Heidelberg inn, only adds another tang to the pleasure of the whole. Thus, in a measure, is "Alt Heidelberg" proof against any sort of performance; but it needed relatively few of these defences in the representation that the members of the Deutscher Verein accomplished last night. They had, too, the aid of a part of the Pierian Sodality...
Every student in Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School who fails to register at the time set for that purpose, may be required to pay to the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee does not preclude action by either of the Administrative Boards...