Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...full audience. So distinct, he said, are the fields of work of the theologian and the naturalist, that he had with difficulty found a topic of common interest-the Evolution of Altruism. Sympathy, the basis of altruism, seems a very natural thing, yet it is hard to explain. The lecturer asked his hearers to assume that man is descended from the lower animals in his body, and in some at least of his mental faculties. He then traced the gradations of altruistic qualities (those which are not based on personal profit) through the various phases of animal life...
...them down in writing. After the reading is over the Professors shall stop for some time in the recitation rooms and if any scholar shall wish to object to anything they have read, or shall be in doubt on any point, they shall listen to him kindly, and shall explain away his doubts and difficulties...
...speaker was Prof. Shaler. His discourses was confined to what he called the new fight between the Greeks and the Trojans. He had been accused of being a Trojon himself, possibly on account of his connection with the scientific department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets...
...conversation with a graduate of Harvard in the '75's, now an instructor in a Harvard preparatory school, I listened to some very emphatic opinions concerning the recent athletic regulations. "At first," said this gentleman, "I could not believe that the regulations were anything but a hoax. I cannot explain them now. How can they be true? What has called them forth? They seem to me utterly unreasonable. The students, of course, are placed in a position at once embarrassing and oppressive. But the faculty, I think, occupies the worst position. This action is at the least injudicious. I hope...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMAON.-If the correspondence resulting from your article of February 8 upon "Our Ranking System" has not already proceeded far enough to be wearisome to your readers, I should like to explain to your correspondent of February 13, the use I made, in your issue of February 11, of the words specialist and superficialist. Your correspondent questions my right to use the words as I did, in raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote...