Word: fall
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bibliography" will fall under two main divisions; authors and subjects,--both arranged alphabetically. Under the first division will be given the names of the world's most famous philosophers, the titles of their books and of the books written on them. Under the second division the principal works of Philosophy will be named and catalogued under one of the following topics: (a) History of Philosophy, (b)Systematic Philosophy, (c) Logic, (b) Aesthetics, (e) Philosophy of Religion, (f) Ethics (g) Psychology...
...informal meeting of the secretaries of several graduate classes held late in the fall, a committee was appointed to discuss plans for the formation of an organization of class secretaries. This committee met and on December 24 sent out a report advising the formation of an organization to be called "The Association of Harvard Class Secretaries;" Also that a permanent Committee be formed, to consist of three, one of whom should be the secretary of the association; and that this committee be chosen at a dinner to be held at the Parker House, Boston, on Friday...
...outsiders in this case was 47 6-10. So far the statistics seemed satisfactory enough, showing as they did, a gain of nearly 6 per cent in the outside representation of the University. Going a little further, however, I discovered that of the 692 men who entered in the fall of 1899, only 321, or 46 3-10 per cent, came from without the state. Here was a decrease of 1 3-10 per cent in a period of five years, for which I was at first quite unable to account. On thinking the matter over more carefully, however...
...argument of science which opposes the belief in immortality is first of all the inability of man to conceive a disembodied existence. This argument must fall before the consideration that immortal spiritual life, in its very nature is above the thorough comprehension of man and the inability of man to understand it cannot be taken as proof against its reality. The recent great discoveries of science itself have bared men's minds to the realization that there are whole worlds in nature whose presence men must acknowledge though they utterly fail to comprehend them...
Then, lastly, materialistic science falls back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical...