Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...raking up the records of those old races, or even of trying to prove that we lead in total number of races won. The main question is how to win a race now, and if our loyal correspondent will send us his solution of the problem, we shall be glad to print it. As the season advances, rowing affairs look brighter, and at the opening of the river in the spring Harvard will put a crew on the water which will be able to stand criticism...
...propose to publish notes. Students find it to their advantage to review their courses by the best possible methods, and if each instructor should publish a short abstract or outline of his course, this would be more satisfactory than complete notes, and would help to solve the problem...
...worst features in the problem that confronts us is the extreme difficulty of separating those who wish to work and earn an honest living from those who are nothing but "dead beats" and intend to remain such. For this very reason it is hard to interest people in the poor. It rarely happens that a poor person who is known to deserve help fails...
...concluding lecture of the course undertakes the application of Idealism to the ethical and religious problems. Of these in particular the problem as to the worth of life, and the existence of evil, is taken, not as if it were the only great problem of the group, but because, in the discussions of it, are brought together a number of important considerations of a moral and religious type...
...only solution of our problem is to be looked for, then, in what may be called an Ethical Optimism, where the existence of evil in the universe is held to bear the same relation to the goodness of the moral order, that, in the individual good man, his evil impulses bear to the moral will that conquers them. With such a moral optimism our study of Hegel has in some measure made us acquainted...