Word: productions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question for the next debate, on January 8, is: "Resolved, That the product of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in the open market." Affirmative--H. W. Hahn, E. F. Mann, W. M. Angle. Negative--A. Black, A. King, R. A. Dean...
...question for December 18 is: "Resolved, That the product of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in open market." Affirmative--H. W. Hahn, E. F. Mann, W. M. Angle. Negative--A. Black, A. King, R. A. Dean...
...discussion of this second precept, the author takes occasion to say that "since frequency of writing has more to do with ease of writing than anything else, I count newspaper men lucky because they are writing all the time, and I do not think so meanly of their product as the present popular disparagement would seem to require. It is hasty work undoubtedly, and bears the marks of haste. But in my judgment, at no period of the English language has there been so high an average of sensible, vivacious and informing sentences written as appears in our daily press...
...know that the University has ever attempted to honor the great president, but it is a custom well worth beginning. Lincoln was not a college graduate. Modern education can not claim him as its product. But it is nevertheless most fitting that the colleges should lead in the movement to show respect for him, because he possessed almost as natural traits many of the finest mental and moral qualities which America is nowadays trying to develop by means of her educational institutions...
...forth-coming number of the Monthly opens with a paper from Professor Royce entitled: "Originality and Consciousness," an answer to the question "Why is the best human originality an unconscious product?" Professor Royce analyses "our human type of consciousness" with a view to getting at the originating element in our nature, and comes to the conclusion that it is the subconscious drift of our nature, not "consciousness that, in us men, is the originator." The subject of the symposium, which should have been called "Harvard's attitude toward smaller colleges" must strike the average reader as a rather far fetched...