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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mechanism. To bring this fact to consciousness, to define and to defend this historical interpretation, is the whole task that properly falls to the lot of a "Philosophy of Evolution." As for the particular truths about the actual process of evolution, it is the business of empirical study to find them out. That there is genuine, and not merely apparent history in the world, philosophy must undertake to show if it can. What the history of this or that in the world is, only science can determine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course on Modern Thinkers. | 1/9/1891 | See Source »

...done us any good, and no one can judge how much harm. The instructor must then be taken from the ranks of the smateurs, but in glancing over the names of the very limited number of men whom it is possible and advisable to employ, we are able to find no one who understands rowing and coaching as well as Bancroft. There are others who might fill the position but none whom we can think of who would be willing to devote his time, to become a professional teacher of rowing, even for the benefit of the Harvard crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1891 | See Source »

...rumors, but we have patiently waited until the time should come when the welcome news that the petition had been granted could be published as a fact, for we felt almost absolutely sure that this last great effort of our graduates would not be dismissed. But now that we find that the petition is refused we can only wonder what reason seemed forcible enough to make the athletic committee willing to bear the harsh criticism from graduates all over the country which this action will be sure to call out. A college race on the water is no longer merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/7/1891 | See Source »

...CREW.- Word will be left at Leavitt and Peirce's at 2 o'clock when to row. Every man to go there and find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 1/6/1891 | See Source »

...though an earnest Republican, is clearly no friend of Matt Quay and his clique. He describes the demoralized condition of boss-ridden Pennsylvania politics and prophecies that the Republican party will eventually find itself stronger for its recent reverses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Atlantic Monthly. | 1/5/1891 | See Source »

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