Word: problem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following perplexing problem in Physics and Orthography was found among the "Queries" in the library. "Upon the bottom of an air tight box is placed a goose. Will the box and its contents way more or less than if the goose were in the centre of the box supporting herself on his wings...
...there has been a desire among those most interested in the welfare of the Union to make membership mean more than it has in the past. At the present, any student of the university can become a member simply by signing the constitution and paying a small fee. The problem which the committee had before them was to restrict membership in some way, but at the same time to retain the so-called cosmopolitism of the society. The following article was proposed. and will come up at the next meeting for final decision...
...mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest problem of her history to solve, how to reconcile in a large and real sense the spirit of true science and the spirit of real religion...
...ground on Holmes and Jarvis is very soft upon the surface, but two inches down, it is still hard with frost. How to cross Holmes field is a problem, there is so much ice and water upon the track...
...others which I have tried to explain. Another source of confusion is the prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...