Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from the garden. It was not strange that St. Paul, the first to bring the legend into prominence, should see in it the story of the fall of man, but it is possible that something of value can be learned from the other side of the shield, namely, the idea that with the first loss of innocence came the first step in the rise of man. As will be seen, this statement does not involve a paradox...
Philosophers have said that the existence of pain and wrong is hard to reconcile with the idea of a God of love. In fact, ever since men began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when...
...which he seems to have had, said, in nature there is no interpolation. So we may believe that evil was no interpolation, no after-thought of nature, but one of its necessary functions. This can be proved, for no such thing as good can be conceived without a contrasting idea of evil. The whole stream of human consciousness is made up of a vast number of different states, and discrimination is constantly going...
...idea of a press club in college is one which has more than once been agitated but which has never come nearer realization than a passing discussion in the editorial columns of the various college publications. Such organizations have existed and it is claimed have flourished at other universities. Here at Harvard there are probably over fifty men who spend some time writing for publication. There is, it must be confessed, some doubt as to whether the men would find one another's society agreeable enough to make the social success of such a club possible...
Burrage at guard plays fairly well. He doesn't put nearly enough force in his tackling, but has some idea of following the ball. He knows the game pretty well...