Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...point. L. Grandgent's essay, "The Noble Instinct," is a skillful arraignment of the twentieth century huntsmen, without being controversial in form. It would be difficult to disprove the arguments, though more might be said in favor of the hunter. The style is in keeping with the thought, vigorous and dignified. In a "Letter from a Captain of Industry to his Literary Friend," W. M. E. Perkins makes a strong plea for the life of action as against the life of contemplation. The captain of industry rather overshoots the mark. Few would agree with the assertion that "now, here...
...time honored custom is made without explanation. The men of the University are the ultimate judges of the best songs. But when two of 42 songs are tried, there is small opportunity for comparison and trial. A song has been known to be very successfully used when the Committee thought it the least likely to succeed of those selected for trial...
...Phillip N. Waggett, of London, author of "Religion and Science," "The Scientific Temper in Religion," etc., will lecture in St. John's Memorial Chapel, corner of Brattle and Mason streets, this afternoon, at 4.30, on "The Church and Modern Thought." All members of the University are invited to attend...
...private life of the Ancient Romans, and perhaps a more or less thorough understanding of the Indian tribes of the southwest and the varieties of the daisy in Middlesex county. Few men confine themselves to these subjects, but even such information, however trivial it may seem at first thought, gives a broad education to the student and fits him for intelligently taking up and mastering whatever problems his business may develop...
...give two lectures on January 20 and 27 on "The Origin of Religion," and he will be followed on February 3 and 10 by Dean W. W. Fenn '84, whose subject will be "Revelation." The concluding series of four lectures, ending on March 9, will be on "Early Reformation Thought," by Professor E. Emerton...