Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intensely interesting lecture last evening to a full audience. So distinct, he said, are the fields of work of the theologian and the naturalist, that he had with difficulty found a topic of common interest-the Evolution of Altruism. Sympathy, the basis of altruism, seems a very natural thing, yet it is hard to explain. The lecturer asked his hearers to assume that man is descended from the lower animals in his body, and in some at least of his mental faculties. He then traced the gradations of altruistic qualities (those which are not based on personal profit) through...
...present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account-the constitution of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at all recondite, very far from it, facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man of science will, I am sure, be willing to allow their due weight...
...scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers; we have the need for them all. This is evident enough, and the friends of physical science will admit it. But perhaps they may not have sufficiently observed another thing: namely, that these powers just mentioned are not isolated, but there is in the generality of mankind a perpetual tendency to relate them one to another divers ways. With one such way of relating them I am particularly concerned now. Following our instinct for intellect and knowledge, we acquire pieces...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Although the officers of the athletic association are to be praised for their management of the meeting last Saturday, in one thing there seemed to be a want of care for the interests of the spectators. While the tug-of-war was being pulled, those looking on were permitted to crowd forward and stand within a short distance of the cleats in such a way that only those in the front row could see a single member of the competing teams. Last winter the officers of the meeting requested every one to remain seated, and the result...
...scholar shall buy, sell, or exchange any thing, to the value of sixpence, without the allowance of his parents, guardians or tutors...