Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...called. The seniors will remember that at the last meeting of the class the motion to provide that the Ninety-one class day garment be the cap and gown instead of the dress suit was laid on the table until the next meeting; those men who favor the new method of dress will find this an excellent opportunity to bring the subject up for a final vote...
...still an open question whether the system of janitors now in force in the college dormitories is the great improvement over the old method it was hoped it would be. We do not mean to imply that the men now in college rooms do not enjoy much better accommodations now than they did twenty years ago, but we do imply that the new method, as carried out, is not much better than the system of three years ago. The rooms are not any better cared for, and expenses do not seem to have decreased in the least. Men have...
...report of the Foxcroft Club is a compliment to the managers. It shows that good, substantial board can be got in Cambridge at very reasonable prices, and that hereafter no one need be kept away from Harvard on account of the high price of food. The new method by which the club will be carried on is a matter of moment. It will be noticed that the college authorities have seen best to withdraw from the direct management of the club, now that it is so well started, and that hereafter the students will have it in their own hands...
...President and Fellows will meet on Monday, the Faculty will meet on Tuesday, so that the method which is to be taken must be chosen right away...
Schopenhauer marks the transition to the modern method of thought-from romantic idealism to modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian basis the theory of human life. He could not get into the inner facts of nature but this was the first onslaught of constructive idealism upon realism. This onslaught failed, but men began to realize that nature's mysteries were not unfathomable. The mysteries are of a spiritual nature...