Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee of the Wesleyan faculty appointed to investigate the bomb throwing last Friday night have ascertained the following facts which tend to show that the accidents were caused by a series of mistakes and were not intentional as has previously been thought. A member of the freshmen class telegraphed to his father in New York to procure for him half a dozen bombs for the purpose of celebrating Washington's birthday. A messenger was sent to procure the bombs, and through a mistake was sent to 20 Park Place instead of 9, as had been intended. The intention...
...time the improvement made by the club in singing has been apparent. The number of men at present on the club is thirty-two. Heretofore the freshman glee clubs have contained not more than twenty-seven voices, but this year, owing to the closeness of the competition, it was thought best to try the experiment of going beyond the usual limit. If it is found later on that the club would do better with fewer men, probably about five voices will be dropped-two from the first basses and one from each of the other parts. The club...
...which have given the Advocate its influential position. They are upon a variety of topics, but all are important and equally interesting. The attitude of college men towards their papers and its effect upon college journalism, which is touched upon in the first editorial, is not especially original in thought, but all college men can read it with advantage. The blow struck at tutors and coaching is timely; and the vigorous treatment of the remarks of a gentlemen at the recent Dartmouth dinner will, we are sure, be read with considerable satisfaction by men at Cambridge...
...Professor Francke, Professor W. T. Harris, the lecturer, said that no obstacle is so great for a self-active individual that he cannot derive some benefit from it. The same can be said of nations. Take for instance the Greeks: after a long struggle against barbarism and clouded thought, they contributed to civilization the intellectual standard. The Romans handed down the forms of the will, the forms of legality. With the German the tendency towards intellectual theory is natural. He thinks before he acts; does not get his knowledge from experience-as is the case with the English-but from...
Individuality plays an important role in modern German thought. In every branch of learning, the individual is emphasized and respected. In the drama the lesser characters are no longer machines; they are free-acting and free-thinking individuals. The result of this exhaustive specialization of intellect of the Germans will be that it will compel all other nations sooner or later to adopt...