Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should like to explain the situation in regard to the proposed Intercollegiate Debating Union, since this is apparently misunderstood by some members of the Wendell Phillips Club. In order to form such a league it is necessary that one organization should take the initiative...
...Governments were afraid to have people know their rights because if they had known them the ruling powers might have been overturned. But now the great endeavor of all men is that every one should be educated and should understand the sciences and the art of government. Today professors explain and comment on existing affairs in a way which fifty years ago would have cost them their chairs...
...request the following letter is published. It will explain itself...
...more thing may explain the prejudice of some scientists against religion, that is, that they do not usually know enough about it to speak reasonably on the matter. Specialists are inevitably narrow and a physicist is no more capable of discussing metaphysics than a senior wrangler is of curing a sick...
...sold it is doubtful if over ten per cent get into students' hands. The price of tickets is very cheap considering the quality of the music and everything is favorable for a large sale, but for some reason the students do not go. Why this is so we cannot explain; we can only point out the melancholy fact...