Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brattle street. The list of speakers includes a number of Asiatic thinkers. Beside these, Professor Josiah Royce, Ph. D., will speak on the "Problem of Job," Nov. 22; the Rev. Charles Carroll Everett, D. D., Dean of the Divinity Faculty, will discuss the relations of "Reason and Instinct," on Dec. 20; and Professor Crawford Toy, LL. D., will speak on the subject, "Ethies of the New Testament," on March...
There is no game which requires so much athletic instinct, as we may say, as lacrosse, requiring, as it does, great endurance, swiftness and quick perception of opportunities. Among the best players on the various teams the team met last year were men from the football teams. New that the class football season is over it is to be hoped that many of the men who are lovers of a skilled sport and desire to keep in good training will come out and try to learn the game of lacrosse...
...Brothel keepers would not allow their inmates to register.- (x) Registration would furnish evidence as to the character of the houses without the necessity of a raid.- (e) The objection that honest women, because ignorant or of foreign birth, would vote detrimentally to municipal interests, fails.- (1) The strongest instinct in every woman is the protection of her children from evil.- (2) This instinct may be trusted to vote.- (x) in the interests of the family, for good public education, improved sanitary conditions, the reduction to a minimum of evils involved in saloons, brothels, and gambling houses,- (y) against public...
Professor Morgan is well known as a psychologist, and has given much time to the study of mind and instinct in animals. He has written several authoritative books upon this and kindred subjects. He is this year delivering a course of Lowell Lectures on "Habit and instinct in Animals...
...means of pursuing this study. But it must be remembered that though much of the knowledge of Fine Arts must be acquired from books, the true artistic perception can only be gained by intimate personal intercourse with the works of art themselves. Thus alone can the eye and the instinct be trained...