Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...Kant's first answer is: Things in Themselves are of necessity unknown to us. We can know in a theoretical sense only the things that appear to our senses, i.e., the Phenomena of the World of Show. Neither common sense, nor science, nor theology, can, with theoretical assurance, carry us beyond the world as it seems to our human powers of observation and experience...
...this why we are theoretically certain that the seeming world is a world of orderly law, such as common sense and science believe in; and we are practically certain that the unknow real world is a divine and moral world, because it is our duty to treat that unknown world as if it were divine and moral...
...connection with the coming freshman foot ball game, it is interesting to review the former games. In 1876 the first freshman game between Harvard and Yale was played on the Boston Common with snow on the ground and a freezing temperature, Harvard winning by a score of three goals to none. The following year two games were played, Harvard being victorious at New Haven by a score of one goal to O, and at Boston by a score of one touch down...
...very slight stories, entitled "Letter Writing" and "The Force of Circumstances," written by A. W. Weysse and C. T. Page, respectively, together with the anonymous account of "A Lamp Dicker," make up the prose of the number. The story of the "Lamp Dicker" shows keen appreciation of a character common enough in college and out of it, and contains several very felicitous phrases...