Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture, after a brief review of the previous discussions, passed to the special question of the evening, a comparison of the Socialistic and Utilitarian moral ideals. The moral ideal of socialism views society as an organism, to be labored for as a whole, as a "body fitly framed together." The moral ideal of utilitarianism views society as a mass of individuals, whose happiness is to be treated as a mere aggregate or sum, this sum being rendered as large as possible. Which of these ideals is the right...
...sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years ago the students of Harvard College took practically no exercise in comparison with today. The greater majority of our sports have sprung up since then. Foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, tennis, track athletics, etc, have passed up through deferent stages of development; they started with the school boy's idea of playing "for the fun of the thing," in which stage little interest...
...guard against this tendency, to throw all its influence against this tendency; is the great mission of this university as of every university with high aims and abilities in the land. The tendency of democracy is to make little of such purposes, to hold in slight regard in comparison with other things the means by which such purposes are attained the colleges of the country and the great body of college graduated infused with the spirit of respect for the highest cultures a culture irrespective of utilitarian ends...
...Princetonian gives this comparison of college papers in the West and East. "In the West there is painful evidence of a fear of passing beyond the bounds, and uttering some sentiment which, really they feel they dare not express. In the literary productions can be seen the lack of general culture. Everything appears in the same stereotyped, orthodox form, indicating a narrow curriculum, which we can almost name in detail. In the personals and locals it is again apparent that, outside of the recitation room the college mind is fed on the most petty details. All this surely declaring...
...Alexander Agassiz, curator of the museum, is the most instructive of those handed to the president during the last year. It not only covers the work of the year but contains a general survey of the work accomplished during the last ten years, the period of his administration. A comparison is made of the state of the museum in 1873 and 1883. "At the close of 1873 the museum building covered about 9, 400 square feet of ground the buildings and collections then represented an expenditure of about $200, 000. From that time to the past academic year...