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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Something exists: however reckless and extravagant this statement seems, let us accept it provisionally and term that something ourselves. Man is a compound of a material part called the body, and an intangible part called the soul. The facts about the body are simple; the soul being invisible is only assumed to exist, first through its apparent effects, secondly through self-consciousness. There is but one form of self-consciousness to which we are not passive; we may feel pain or sensation, but we never say that we feel the will. It is always subjective and active...
...Gordon made the next address. He said that the legitimate expectations of college life were the delightful membership, the share of knowledge, the method of inquiry into the vast compound life, the privilege of sitting under great teachers, but most of all the realization of a constant and solemn relation to this universe. Christianity is simply the sovereign mood--man at his best. The good name of the University is bound up in the willingness of the new men to perpetuate and enrich and make commanding that service here which makes the sovereign mood...
...instrument used in making the observations will be a compound one, so that many negatives may be taken at one time, and will be kept turning to face the sun by means of clock-work...