Word: logic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...grew up when men studied the same lessons and wrote forensics on the same subject were very close. The first duty of the undergraduate in the sixties was to make his nose reasonably comfortable on the grind stone. Few of the men then would have studied conic sections or logic if they had been left to their own choice. Few of the young men today who take pleasant courses get as good training or go out into the world with as good a preparation as the men in the sixties did. The best places in the world are as hard...
...extent and variety of Plato's works is amazing. He handled all subjects with a master's skill. He wrote on logic, economics, metaphysics and poetry, a great number of works, only a few of which have come down...
...Gentner having pronounced judgment against my logic, it seems almost presumptuous on my part to attempt any defense. I will, however, venture to say that he has apparently failed to understand both the meaning and purpose of my letter...
...judgments. Secondly, in giving their opinions for publication some writers feel a certain apprehension as to the validity of their own convictions and so refrain from singning their names. But their thoughts, such as they are, they give to the public, "carrying with them no higher authority than their logic." It might be well to add here that we are not all "careful students," nor are we all as confident or self-assured that "Junior's logic is not above the E stamp." Finally, the point is this: The CRIMSON is read by members of the English Department. Doubtless, then...
...valid (I, for one, do not admit it), he has yet to show that they are more than the merely unavoidable ones. Finally, Junior, is in error to anticipate the careful students will at all believe him. An anonymous contribution carries with it no higher authority than its logic and Junior's logic is not above the E stamp...