Word: matter
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...first spoke on the new spirit of co-operation which has arisen of late years between the student body and the Faculty. In the matter of Freshman dormitories especially, the Faculty needs the co-operation of the students. These dormitories are a new development and are intended to bridge the gap between the regular routine of boarding school and the more unrestrained life of the college. To ordinary incoming Freshmen, the change is too sudden, and many lose their bearings until their Junior or Senior years...
Mathematics.--*Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry, Asst. Professor E. V. Huntington; *Advanced Algebra, *Introduction to Modern Geometry, and *Subject Matter of Elementary Mathematics, Asst. Professor C. L. Bouton; Calculus, and *Topics in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable or of Real Variables, Professor W. F. Osgood...
...great essentials of a gentleman, no matter what his position in life may be, are toleration and sympathy: without these qualities all the culture in the world cannot make a true gentleman; with them the simplest, most uneducated countryman is the equal of a belted earl. Among others, he chose, to illustrate his point, the story of the rough soldier-hero at the dinner-table of his commanding officer. It was in India, and, while the soup was being served, ice as precious in that climate, as diamonds, was passed around to cool the champagne. The soldier took a lump...
...view of the facts published in yesterday's CRIMSON, the serious question arises whether the College public has any call to interfere in the matter. The Faculty have taken the general attitude of non-interference with the societies. The writer firmly believes that in general the students as a body have no business whatsoever to interfere with the individual societies. Yet the College is not entirely disconnected from the societies, for they are both made up of the same men and any serious evil in the societies results in injury to the individuals and to the College through the individuals...
Many people err by thinking that Comte, being a philosopher, made his doctrine in religion subordinate to his philosophy; as a matter of fact, positivism, the system of philosophy for which Comte is famous, means precisely positive religion, to which positive philosophy, as taught by the "cours de philosophie positive," is only introductory. Thus, positivism is a system which excludes from philosophy all physical relations that are not discovered by observation, experiment, or comparison...