Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that it must be settled in the light of the actual situation in New York City. The speaker called attention to the fact that the proposition of the affirmative was without precedent in the whole history of the world, in view of the fact that no city ever thought of buying up an entire transportation system, to the owners of which it had granted perpetual franchises. Glasgow took over her lines when the franchises expired. In Chicago most of the franchises have expired and the rest will expire very soon...
...year, to succeed Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipzig, in the second year of the international interchange, now regularly established between the University and the German Government. His courses at the University next winter will probably deal chiefly with the classic epoch of German literature, and with German literature and thought of the present day. Harvard's representative has not yet been announced...
...object of the course is to show how modern thought, and the religious, educational, and philanthropic life of Christian countries has reacted on the life of the other countries during the nineteenth century. The lectures are to be 45 minutes in length and are open to all members of the University. Already 85 men have enrolled in the course, and all others who wish to attend should hand in their names at the lecture tonight...
...good number of students in our college wish to open correspondence with American students and exchange the thought and knowledge they respectively have. Our students here have very little chance of getting any knowledge about America while in school, and they are exceedingly anxious to know what the New World is doing...
...correspond with our students, it will, I believe, not only be a source of great pleasure to both parties, but will also do them real good; and in the case of our students it will also give them a rare--if not the only opportunity of expressing their thought in earnest in a foreign tongue which they are now studying for seven or eight years...