Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Aside from the personal character which the dispute has unfortunately taken the controversy is interesting as indicative of the keen philisophical spirit prevalent in America. Philosophers as such are apt to be thought of as existing in a state of unprejudiced calm and guided by a reason which hardly would admit of enthusiasm. The following spirited paragraph in Professor Royce's critique, which is said to have been the principal cause of the controversy, suggests, however, that philosophers may become very much interested...
...Hill succeeded him as president of the University. He served until Sept. 30, 1868, when he was obliged by illness to resign. He returned to Waltham, which town he represented in the Legislature of 1871. Later he accompanied Professor Louis Agassiz on the coast surveying expedition to South America. On his return he accepted the pastorship of the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Me., and this position he held until his death...
...interior plans of the new chemical and physical laboratories at Amherst have been completed. Professors Kimball and Harris have made a careful study of the laboratories of America and Germany and the new building will be fitted with the latest improvements...