Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 and simple question to write six pages on. A. D. Sheffield develops the only idea of any originality, and the attitude taken by the editorial might almost be called...
...number also contains a vigorous symposium on "Intercollegiate Spirit in America," written by several of the undergraduates. Other numbers...
Near the end of the number is a symposium on the future of the New England country, to which ex-Governor Long, George B. Loring, Rev. S. W. Dike and Rev George A. Jackson contribute. Their words are suggestive...
...Burton Harrison, whose most recent title to fame is the authorship of "The Anglomaniacs" attempts to write an essay in a novelist's style with unfortunate results. Her subject is "Maidens and Matrons in American Society." The maidens receive further attention in a symposium "Shall our Daughters have Dowries?" by C. S. Messinger, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amelin E. Barr, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Rollins...
...North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone a great many things...