Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York Life's leadership is also shown in its greater promptness, completeness and frankness in report-making. Its annual report for 1895 was publishen January 11, 1896, and contained a complete senedule of its bonds and stocks, with interese rates and market values. Real estate schedules are also published for distribution to all who ask for them. the report is made after methods understood by the public, upon the basis of business completed and money actually received and disbursed, without the old-time padding and cross-entries...
...some years past there has been a widespread idea that there is a conflict between the truths of science and religion. By many people religion has been taken as a kind of sentiment rather than a rational belief. The first real difficulty in the way has been the Biblical account of the creation of the world in six days. In view of the gradual development of other planets, it seems hard to believe that the world could have reached so high a state of development in six days. But this account is not to be taken too literally...
...Platonic doctrine that some ideas are visible only to the soul and not to the body, is closely connected with the Platonic idea of the soul. Plato believed the soul to be immortal. He believed in an ideal world above the heavens which were the real home of souls, exiled and imprisoned on earth...
...time that every Harvard man recognized that the so-called "Harvard indifference" is not a myth, but a real actual thing, and a menace to the athletic life of this great University. It is time that a resolute, concerted effort were made to throw off this lethargy and to work together earnestly with the purpose of raising Harvard once more to its old position as the first athletic college in the country...
...father of many philosophies he had no system of his own. He taught the philosophy of philosophy. Taking for his motto the words "Know Thyself," he relentlessly showed up the ignorance of man, believing that it was the greatest obstacle to human knowledge. He said that the only real good was knowledge; the only real evil, ignorance. He taught the foundations of the modern system of reasoning by induction and deduction...