Word: professor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor James gave the Ingersoll lecture for this year in the Fogg Musuem last evening, his subject being: "On Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine of a Future Life." The audience was as large as the building has held...
...Professor James prefaced his lecture by an outline of the ground that the lecturer might cover co-operatively under the head of the subject, immortality. His address was a discussion and refutation of two objections; one questioning how in the absolute dependence upon the brain of spiritual life, as we know it here, there can be immortality; and the second relative to the incredible number of beings which we must believe to be immortal if immortality be true...
Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality. On Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine of a Future Life. Professor James. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Monthly which comes out today is interesting chiefly on account of a short article by Professor Hollis, defending the present system of electing the athletic committee. He says: "How a change in the method of electing the committee would affect this (the election) does not appear. There is no reason to think that a body of students in mass meeting would exercise better judgment than the small body of men who now select the committee. In fact, the weight of argument is all the other way. A mass meeting is very likely...
...wrong man. Even granting that this may be partially true, it seems that the small body of students who now choose the committee might be more representative. As it is now, the Cycling Association and the Cricket Club have as many votes as the Football Association and the Crew. Professor Hollis, has however, succeeded in meeting most of the objections, and his article is well worth reading...