Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ingersoll lecture on Human Immortality. On Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine of a Future Life. Professor James. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Harvard Religious Union. First meeting of the year. On Being Human. Mr. D. H. Fletcher. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
Harvard Religious Union. First meeting of the year. On Being Human. Mr. D. H. Fletcher. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
...Crothers, the last speaker, said in brief: It seems to me to be one of the greatest characteristics of Harvard University that it is possible to speak to the whole University on religion. The University accepts religion as fundamental and necessary in human life. It does, however, ignore the dissensions that have marred its fair face. Preachers do not come here to contradict each other, but to unite in large and great aims, to give a dignified and fundamental presentation of religion to young men whose minds are still in solution and whose aims are still unfixed...
...forth-coming number of the Monthly opens with a paper from Professor Royce entitled: "Originality and Consciousness," an answer to the question "Why is the best human originality an unconscious product?" Professor Royce analyses "our human type of consciousness" with a view to getting at the originating element in our nature, and comes to the conclusion that it is the subconscious drift of our nature, not "consciousness that, in us men, is the originator." The subject of the symposium, which should have been called "Harvard's attitude toward smaller colleges" must strike the average reader as a rather far fetched...