Word: mindful
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Idealism, as it has been stated in Lecture X, asserts the existence of an Universal Mind or World-Logos, but seems incapable at first of explaining any fact of experience, or of solving the concrete problems of life. In view of this defect of what one may call abstract Idealism, the present lecture undertakes to assume, at first, the Realistic attitude towards the world, and to re-examine the fundamental questions of philosophy from this point of view. This change of point of view will in the end prove instructive, and will lead to a return to Idealism...
...student of the Boston Latin School has lost his mind from over-study...
...PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC.A course of eight public lectures on the Psychology of music will be given by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman in Sever Hall during January, February and March. The purpose of this course is to Inquire into the operations of the mind concerned in the hearing of music. An examination of the sensation of tone will be followed by an outline of Helmholtz's theory of the quality of musical notes and of recent opinion as to the nature of consonance and dissonance. The main structural characteristics of music will then be discussed psychologically, and a reference made...
...made of." The value of this elementary form of idealism appeared, however, in the second part of the discussion, when it was pointed out that one who still holds to the reality of a world external, not only to our own ideas, but to the ideas of any mind. must needs declare this wholly unideal world of his faith to be, as Herbert Spencer says, utterly Unknowable. In view of this fact, our argument at this point reaches an Alternative that is to be strennously insisted upon, namely: Either the world must be interpreted in idealistic terms, or else...
...faction in the evolution of our evergrowing strength which had culminated at last in victory. As a Harvard man he thanked our coaches, Dr. Conant and the second eleven for their splendid services and congratulated them on their success. He pointed out the necessity of keeping next year in mind and ended by expressing the ten thousand thanks to 'varsity eleven and to their captain, which was but their...