Word: logic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would suppose that enough good stationery had been expended on the question, "Does a college education fit a man for business pursuits?" Yet the January Lippincott sees fit to grapple with this question again and without regard to fact or logic settles it in the negative. It would be pardonable if the writer of the article referred to was himself one of those who had never received the benefits of a college training. But it is inexplicable when it is known that he is an M. A. There are three points which it is necessary to prove before...
...examination in Philosophy 2 will consist of Jevon's Logic and the first hundred pages of Bain...
...little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article is not the feature of the magazine. C. O. Hurd, '86, has a critical article on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," in which Poe is called to task for want of logic in his story. A strange thing, full of pathos and power is the personal reminiscence of J. S. Phillips, '85, entitled "Joe and I." It is well conceived and contains a psychological study of deep interest. "A Power of the Past," by J. E. Sinnott, '86, is a piece...
Within a year the Yale faculty has reorganized its system of Electives, and on a plan much resembling the revision adopted here. In their junior year about half the studies are required, while at Princeton two-thirds are required. Among the junior studies common to both colleges are Logic and Physics, and also Psychology. In Yale, however, Logic comes before Psychology. In senior year there are but three hours a week of required work and twelve of elective, or only one fifth of the work required. Here, however, the proportion is nearly one-half required and a little over...
...present time is a course of lectures by a well known New York journalist. A thorough familiarity with the party-history of the country, and with the general history of the country and of the world, together with a knowledge of Common, Constitutional, International Law, Political Economy, Logic, Principles of Criticism, English Literature, and the French and German languages, are given by Whitelaw Reid as the indispensable acquirements of a journalist. While, of course, any student can get all these studies from the curriculum as at present constituted, it would certainly be a great gain for the profession...