Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boating on the Charles River basin has been indulged in to quite an extent during the past cold snap...
Members from the senior class who wish to attend the dinner at Young's hotel, Friday evening, will please sign at Bartlett's before 12 M. on Thursday. Past members are requested to send their names to the secretary, 9 Holworthy...
...first consider what are the implications of the determinist view. If our acts depend entirely on our present circumstances and character, and our characters on past circumstances and the circumstances of our parents, it is evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from...
...zest of life let us inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them. Such conduct as has proved useful in the past, cannot but be thought wise for the future. In so far, therefore, as our notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does not discourage us in working out our purposes...
...already been made known to the college that the Shakspere Club is planning to give a public representation of Julius Caesar this spring. During the past week the president of the club, Mr. Jones, has been busy reducing the various suggestions for the project into definite shape. The assignment of characters was finally determined last Saturday, and in other details the plan is now practically complete. The date of the presentation of the play is set for the third week...