Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thus Kant and Spinoza are at almost opposite poles of reflection. Each stands for one phase of the higher thought of humanity...
...intending medical students in whose needs alone this movement had its origin, without affording any sufficient relief for the latter who need it. Your committee can hardly conceive of a more unfortunate step in the educational world than such a significant and conspicuous lowering of the standard of the higher liberal education would be at the present time. The one thing more needful than any other in the whole business, social and political world of America, is a broad, generous and leisurely liberal education for its young men preparing for active life. To lower the standard of liberal culture...
...believed that everything must be explained by its own nature or by a higher nature, and so that there must be some one higher order; this is his "universal order " eternal, infinite, self-determined, complete in itself. This is Spinoza's God. This order must have infinite ways of expression, hence Body and Mind. Whereever there is a body there is a thought, not necessarily produced or effective, but parallel; the human mind is a part of the divine intellect and is a thought thinking of the human body; we are in and of God. The wise...
Valuable also are Minister Romero's concluding article on the Pan-American Conference and E. L. Godkin's "Key to Municipal Reform." Michael Davitt discusses the tendencies of labor in Great Britain; ex-President. White of Cornell adds an article to the much debated question of higher instruction in America and the future of the second-class "Universities" with which the country is surfeited. John Burroughs leaves his country scenes to talk of "Faith" and "Credullty." Madame A dam and G. P. A. Healey gossip about subjects with which they are respectively less and more familiar; while Professor Shaler...
...Classical Philology. The main feature of the pamphlet is the division of courses into three groups,- those designed primarily for undergraduates, those for graduates and undergraduates, and those primarily for graduates. The courses for undergraduates are open to graduates, but are not ordinarily counted towards any of the higher degrees. To the courses primarily for graduates undergraduates are admitted only on recommendation of the instructor...