Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...half-year; Philosophy 2 hf., Introduction to Philosophy through the Problems of Conduct and Religion, will be given the first half-year; Philosophy 9c hf., Social Psychology and Ethics, will be a new course given by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, of Cambridge, England; Philosophy 17a hf., History of Christian Thought since 1632, will be a new course; Philosophy 17b hf., Modern Philosophy, especially as influenced by Ritschl, will be a new course; Philosophy 19a hf., History of Continental Ethics, will be a new course; Philosophy 21 hf., Advanced Logic, will be a new course, given by the Hon. Bertrand Russell...
Certainly that is true, especially among the first class mentioned. He would be very rash who would suppose that a man could attain to a professorship in a university of repute without having shown some capacity for original thought. But with the student this does not necessarily hold. There are innumerable instances to prove that a man may pass admission examinations to college without having ever experienced the sensation of having a thought of his own; he can buy the thoughts he needs at so much per hour. And there are only fewer instances to prove that he can also...
...slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs. But this stirring up has done some good; and more stirrings up would do more good. Recently an examination paper in politics at Columbia consisted entirely of quotations...
...members of the Regiment are expected to attend this lecture in uniform and should assemble in the Union at 5 o'clock. No attempt will, however, be made to arrange the Regiment by companies as had previously been thought desirable...
There are prevalent among undergraduates two impressions regarding College studies which deserve to be brought up sharply and refuted by the evidence of facts. It is thought by some men, on the one hand, that there is no connection between their College work and that which they will do afterwards; and on the other hand, there is an idea abroad that certain studies are peculiarly adapted to preparation for specific professions...