Word: logic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest. Among the candidates are Rev. David L. Hill, LL. D., president of Bicknell University, Lewisburg, Penn., and Professor E. H. Johnson, D. D., of Crozier Theological Seminary, Chester, Penn. Dr. Hill is one of the youngest college presidents in the country, but has written text books on rhetoric, logic and psychology...
Mahaffy: "Greek Life and Thought." Venn: "Logic of Chance...
...arts upon graduates of three year's standing. The examination for degrees were frequent and severe, especially just before commencement. Good conduct as well as scholarship was essential in order to obtain a degree. "Every scholar that giveth up in writing a system or synopsis or some of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy; and is ready to defend his theses or positions; withal, skilled in the originals as above said and of godly life, is fit to be dignified with his second degree...
...would cultivate and develop the soul, we must oppress and dishonor the tabernacle in which it dwells. To consider the dilapidation of the casket as indispensable to the increase of the brilliancy of the gem, is an unnatural paradox, to say the least. As a consequence of this strange logic the body was disparaged, vilified, cursed, macerated and mutilated by a set of theologians, scholastic and mystical, who had wedded a religion divorced from science. The Olympic games were suppressed by an imperial decree. Manly exercises, the festivals of the seasons, mirthful pastimes and health-giving sports were discouraged...
...first, second and third classes. The first classics was of third year men. Second, the attention of each class was concentrated for an entire day upon one or two studies, with "theory" in the forenoon and "practice" in the afternoon. Third, Monday and Tuesday were devoted to philosophy, including logic and physics for the first year, ethics and politics for the second year, with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy for the third year. All this work was done in the morning hours. In the afternoon came philosophical disputations for each class in its own field of study ("every...