Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many a pure muddle, a strange object of perplexity. The new criticism makes of the old testament a living growth,- one sees it vividly. In the study by comparative method one feels a repulsion in comparing the Bible with other sacred writings. It is a most stimulating method. The attempt to compare is most profitable to the student, to set familiar literature side by side with the Bible...
...while he was associated with Franklin and Adams that he did his best work; and it is precisely because he was associated with these men of wider fame that justice was done his memory. On another point Mr. Pellew does not make so strong a case. His attempt to show that the first declaration by the Supreme Court of the unconstitutionality of an act of Congress came in Jay's justiceship is weak; for the court's protest in 1790 was a radically different matter from a constitutional decision. On the whole, however, the author has clearly vindicated his claim...
...lectures on the Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy. The lectures will be given every Wednesday evening during the first Half Year and will consist of popular studies of certain great leaders and great ideals of Philosophical Thought during the last two hundred and fifty years. The attempt will be made to show the present situation in Philosophy and how it has been reached. The address this evening will be devoted to a general introduction to the whole course. The time and place will be half past seven in Sever 11. It will be remembered that last winter Professor...
...recent number of the Century with an article on General Fremont. Professor Royce's researches in Californian history have convinced him that General Fremont's achievements have been very much overestimated. In his history of California and in the recent Century letter he dealt heavy blows upon those who attempt to set Fremont on a pedestal for adoration as a here and the conqueror of California. The present article is no less vigorous than what he has already had to say upon the subject...
...Britain. Harvard University raised through a committee of twenty about $600 to assist in defraying the cost of the entertainment of the foreign guests of the Northfield Conference. It is quite certain that Harvard will have a General Secretary next year, the needful sum having been raised. A strong attempt has been made to have an elective course in the English Bible offered next year. This has been found impossible, but some special conferences on Biblical Introduction will be held...