Word: adams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...begins with an account of the daily life of an average student, following him through a Wednesday in term time, and leaving him in the evening seated with some friends at a table in "Frank's" the restaurant patronized by the college men, which must correspond somewhat to our "Adam's." "Passing from the favorite restaurant to the regular boarding clubs we shall find little ofinterest. All the clubs with a single exception are managed by towns-people. Amherst has no Memorial Hall. The landlady fixes the price of board, regulates the quality, and takes all comers till the "table...
Many men about college will rejoice at the news that Adam will not close up his paradise on the first of May. Instead of spirituous liquors, he will keep sozodont and non-alcoholic champagne on draft...
...ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries were optimists, but his modern disciples are materialists...
Members of Philosophy 4 will have till Saturday next, to finish the fourth thesis of the course, on Adam Smith...
...SECOND FALL. - Members of the course Phil. - will recall one of the illustrations used concerning an apple orchard of heroic times, the keeper of which Adam, fell from grace because of one of the apples. Yesterday on account of the juice of similar apples, another Adam had received another fall. The Cambridge vote of yesterday was the cause of the Schute...