Word: adler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Philosophical Club. Ethics and Culture. Address by Professor Felix Adler of New York. Sanders Theatre...
...MONDAY.Harvard Philosophical Club. Ethics and Culture. Address by Professor Felix Adler of New York. Sanders Theatre...
...announcement that we are to have the exceptional good fortune to have Professor Felix Adler lecture in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening is by far the most welcome that we have seen in the calendar for a long time. The Philosophical Club is to be complimented and thanked for securing this eminent man whose influence is so widely felt throughout our country. The field of Professor Adler's work is better known and appreciated in New York where his excellent and beneficent labors have found the support and co-operation of some of the most intelligent people in the metropolis...
Professor Adler has frequently been charged with harboring socialistic ideas, but those who hear him or read his works can only admire the sort of socialism which he advocates. Professor Adler's work is, however, by nomeans limited to theorizing and lecturing. His great merit is the practical system of charities and education of the poorer classes which he has established and successfully built up. Chicago, Philadelphia and numerous other cities have now Ethical Culture Societies which are vying with the New York society in the work they do. No man in America, it is safe to say, is more...
...private life of the time. The material is partly baked, partly unbaked brick. These tablets were dug up by the natives and sent to London, whence they came by purchase into the possession of Harvard College. In connection with the foregoing, it may be mentioned that Dr. Cyrus Adler of Johns Hopkins announced that the National Museum at Washington is about to form a complete collection of casts and fac-similes of seals coming from Messopotanna. It is intended eventually to include cylinders, slabs and tablets in the collection...