Word: dependant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ethics deal with ideal conceptions; not with what men actually do, but with what they should do, and much as we may regret it, moral ideas do not depend on fact but on what should be. So the first service of ethics is the enlarging of our philosophy. Ethics cannot take the place of all philosophy but it can endow us with the great gift of moral truth...
...permanent form a representative collection of such reproductions. That "The Harvard Portfolio," therefore, may, from the start, adequately fulfill its mission, two things are necessary: first, an excellent quality of work, and, second, as complete a collection of illustrations as possible. The first we guarantee; the second must depend largely upon the encouragement we receive from the university. The publication should contain, beside the illustrations mentioned in your article, cuts of the graduating classes in the professional schools and of all notable organizations in the university. We purpose carrying out these ideas just as far as the support...
...Since it is not so much tenacity that is needed but firmness, Mr. Davy thinks he will gain in lightness and lose nothing in utility by using wood instead of steel. The idea of this cross-bracing is simply this: a shell being made so extremely light it must depend mainly for its strength on the even balance of the strains to which it is subjected. The problem of making a sculling toat is simplified by the fact that the outriggers are exactly opposite each other and the strains equal. But in eight oars the outriggers are not opposite...
...unusual amount of work incident to the appearance of the Catalogue in English with many other minor changes will compel Mr. Tillinghast to depend very largely in preparing the class lists, on the replies received to this circular...
Hereafter the exercise books in Math. E. will be called for every Friday and returned the following Monday. Hour examinations will take place at short intervals during the rest of the year. The final marks will depend greatly on the exercise books and hour examinations...