Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brief for the Affirmative.L. H. ROOTS and W. P. JONES...
...last night. Professor Palmer concluded his lectures on parabolic teaching and the teaching of Christ. Professor Palmer began by saying that if we could compare the parables with other forms of teaching we should see how beautiful were the ways in which Jesus taught. Jesus' parables were almost as brief as proverbs and as vivid as similes, thus allowing one to carry their meaning clearly in one's mind. There is nothing grotesque, nothing untrue in Christ's parables. A principle is taken and then is shown a case of its working. In a parable a fact stands solidly...
...Department of Ethics, in charge of Professor Phelix Adler, Ph. D. He will give a course of eighteen lectures on the System of Applied Ethics, including a brief survey of the various schemes of classification adopted in ancient and modern ethical systems, the discussion of the relation of religious to moral instruction, of the development of the conscience in the child, etc. The Scheme of Duties treated will embrace Personal Ethics, Social Ethics in general, the Ethics of the family, the Ethics of the Professions, the Ethics of Politics, the Ethics of Friendship, the Ethics of Religious Association. The Scheme...
...Brief for the Affirmative...
...Brief for the negative.C. R. DETRICK and L. K. MORSE...