Word: phases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That extreme revolutionary phase of socialism known as "Nihilism" is to be the question for debate at the next meeting of the Harvard Union. The question is of especial interest to all students of America, for it is in the Russian universities which the hotbeds of nihilism are found. The students have been the most zealous and indefatigable of the workers in the movement, and consequently have been the objects of severe police surveillance. The sympathy which we, students in a free land, should feel towards fellow students in a land of despotic oppression, ought to be enough to excite...
Socialism, the speaker said, is indefinable. In one phase it aims at making the state all powerful, in another utterly to destroy it. The general tendency of socialism is to cause growing interest in present life. It is an expression of despair. The present industrial system is said to be a mere struggle for a prize that goes to the mightiest and most influential. But in studying socialism we must look at its best as well as at its worst sides...
Many persons habitually and without thought, make fun of "sweet girl graduates" and of all that pertains to their collegiate training. It may be of interest to the general reader to happen upon a short account of one phase of the practical good that is being accomplished by the movement for the "higher education of women." On January 14, 1882, sixty-six women graduates met in Boston and organized an "Association of Collegiate Alumnae." The object of this association, as expressed in its Constitution, is "to unite alumnae of different institutions for practical educational work." The regular members...
...interesting phase of the elective system was suggested by the casual remarks of one of our professors recently. The remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase...
...ladies of the Cornell freshman class by a combination succeeded in electing the vice-president and secretary from their number. This will add an interesting phase to the freshman class supper, where the sophomores have a custom of carrying off both the supper and the officers. [Princetonian...