Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...answer to this statement the lecturer suggested that progress can be a religiously encouraging fact only in case it is an essential, not a purely accidental feature of realty. But the progress that science discovers in the world is a local and transient fact, occurring at a particular stage in the process of the cooling of the solar system certain, in so far as we can judge to end before long altogether. If it be replied that progress, ceasing here, may reach a higher stage in some other planet, or in some other solar or stellar system, the lecturer insisted...
...must re-examine the assumptions on which the scientific conception of the world is founded. One of these assumptions was taken up and an analysis of this assumption was sketched. We assume in all discussions about the world that there is a difference between the truth of a statement and its falsity. But a statement is true by reason of its agreement with its object, and here arises a difficulty...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: In your issue of the 9th instant there appeared among the editorials an article which seemed to me so unjust and so positively fallacious in argument as to require some notice. From a statement made by President Eliot before the New York Harvard Club concerning beneficial endowments to the clerical profession, the HERALD justifies itself in attacking the scholarship system at Harvard...
...glad to join the Crimson in some explanatory statement of the condition of affairs relating to the Political Economy department. Through a Harvard letter in a recent number of the Boston Advertiser a rumor was set afloat to the effect that this department of the university was to be weakened both in the number of courses and professors. Owing to financial reasons, our faculty entertained the hope that Prof. Dunbar, on his return next year, would be able to conduct the three course that are now given. President Eliot never shared this hope, and realized that although Prof. Dunbar would...
...communication in yesterday's Boston Journal combats Dr. Sargent's statement that walking, of itself, is of no value as an exercise, but that a spirited walk is one of the finest of all physical exercises. Also that gymnasium exercises are of the "greatest account...