Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. The Constituents of a General Idea: The Relations of Feeling, Will, and Intellect. Professor Josiah Royce. Sever...
...future work of the extension must be done by the cooperation of the teachers of the land. We soon hope to have summer schools at Oxford and Cambridge opened to the public and by so doing be of great aid to the work. The idea that education is an impetus to high social position is gradually dying out and in its place is growing the belief that knowledge is the path to truth and happiness...
Sacrifice originated in the idea that the dead needed ministry and care, and the necessary things were brought and laid on the graves, the first altars. Then it was thought that by bringing their gifts to the altar, they entered into close relations with their God and formed ties of loyalty to him. The next step made it a necessity that the gifts to the god should be of the finest and these the people willingly gave. And we tonight to come close to God, must give to him the finest and dearest that we have...
...carry out this idea, it was moved and carried that, at the competitive debate to select speakers to meet Yale, the judges select the best twelve men, the first three to debate with Yale, the whole twelve to form the nucleus of the new society. In addition those members who spoke in the last Yale debate will also be charter-members...
Lecture. What is a General Idea? Prof. Josiah Royce. Upper Dane...