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Wednesday, October 27.--"Geometry an A Priori Science...
Wednesday, October 27.--Geometry an A Priori Science...
Wednesday, October 37 - "Geometry and A Priori Science...
Indeed, the average college man is a victim of what Tolstoy termed "the school state of mind",--a state in which every thing scholarly appears a-priori difficult, and the student regards himself not an eager seeker for truth, but a patient forced to receive a distasteful pellet of learning. Probably most men actually apply more alert thought to choosing their clothing and food than to their properly-intellectual tasks...
Accordingly the conclusion reached by the fathers of the project that the matter must be "left in the hands of the (joint) Faculty" seems the only way out. To leave the subject intact to be treated without a priori restriction by the administrators of the new organization--thus and thus only can the desired results be obtained without sacrifice of freedom in the whole body. Indeed that is, we take it, the key note of the whole movement. The details are perplexing, the plans of action elaborate and yet the ultimate success of the work depends on the sincere intelligent...