Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tell you again for your comfort that there are many liars in the world, but there are no liars like your own sensations. The despair and the horror mean nothing, because there is for you nothing irremediable, nothing ineffaceable, nothing irrecoverable in anything you may have said or thought or done. If for any reason you cannot believe or have not been taught to believe in the infinite mercy of Heaven, which has made us all, and will take care we do not go far astray, at least believe that you are not yet sufficiently important to be taken...
...acquisition of that wealth are, if not laudable, at least expedient. Those of you who have fitly imbibed the spirit of our university--and it was not a materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Graven and the Ireland in England--will violently resent that thought, but you will live and eat and move and have your being in a world dominated by that thought. Some of you will probably succumb to the poison...
...Chicago, and a trustee of Northwestern University, with the purpose "to stimulate scientific research of the highest type and bring the results before the students and friends of Northwestern University, and, through them, to all the world." By scientific research, is meant "scholarly investigation into any department of human thought or effort." Last year the lectures were delivered by Professor Borden P. Bowne, of the department of philosophy at Boston University since...
...object of the club is to educate its members and. in a broader sense. the whole University, in the discussion of the radical social thought of the day. Speakers of national note will probably be secured, who represent the most advanced sociological and economic thought. with especial attention to the various phases of socialism. The club is a political organization only in so far as its objects may be advanced by these meetings. The next meeting will be held some time next week when officers will be elected...
...pleasure to call attention to the series of lectures by Professor Zueblin under the auspices of the Ethical Society, the second of which will be delivered at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Under the title of "A Democratic Religion" Professor Zueblin throws the light of the best modern American thought upon some of the questions which present-day undergraduates find filling a large share of their more serious consideration. We venture to believe that in some respects the views of the undergraduates are more nearly correct under modern conditions than those of "the powers that be" in the University...