Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simple set of rules providing that professional athletes shall not be employed to instruct undergraduates, that no games shall be played with professionals, and that the rules of foot-ball shall be modified so as to do away, as far as possible, with brutality, might have been received with favor by other colleges. As it is, it looks as if a Chinese wall were being built around the Harvard students...
...action, then the utilitarian view would appear to be the only right one. Sympathy with suffering would increase with the suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only non-egoistic impulse, and so is the only possible moral principle. Is this, however, true? Is pity or sympathy necessarily unselfish at all? The lecturer pointed...
...terms "smattering" and "superficiality" in knowledge, are frequently used with a great deal of effect nowadays; and yet we think that there is much to be said in favor of smattering in knowledge. Reproach can properly attach to the smatterer only when in the arrogance of half-knowledge, he attempts judgments only open to the specialist. Every man to a certain extent must be a smatterer. It may be necessary to lessen the preponderance of time given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior...
...that they will meet with the approval of enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy an attitude of doubtful patience. We are not aware that conference or co-operation with them has been proposed, notwithstanding the obvious arguments in favor of such a course. Indeed we have heard it stated that some votes in the faculty were cast in favor of the regulations, at the time of their first consideration, under the impression that they were earnestly desired by a large majority of the students. This impression we hope the recent...
...hope as large a number of men as possible will put their names down on the book to be placed at Bartlett's for the proposed junior class dinner, and that as soon as possible. Besides the reasons which are generally urged in favor of class dinners, this dinner should receive the hearty support of the class for the additional reason that it is given, to a certain extent, as a mark of respect and appreciation of the efforts of the junior crew in preparing for the class races. When we think how few are the opportunities for social meetings...