Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...founded a school of philosophy at Croton, Italy. The most important doctrine of this famous school was the transmigration of souls. It is not probable that Pythagoras brought this doctrine from Egypt. The theory of the fundamental essence of number was another characteristic teaching of this school. Pythagoras thought that nothing in nature could be conceived or understood without numbers...
When Jesus spoke these words, commented Mr. Crothers, he was not thinking so much of the place, as of the condition of the sould. He urged simplicity of thought and singleness of desire. Choose your part, he says; let the heart be fixed once and forever upon its true aim. Thus fixed, men will find in their aims their sufficient treasure and come to the real liberty of the children...
...found in Whitman is his lack of distinction between good and evil. Indeed Whitman affirmed that there was no such thing as evil in nature. Everything which appears evil is really good when looked at from the right standpoint. While we recognize immorality as something to be shunned, Whitman thought it should be commemorated. The lecturer said that some of his poems are nothing short of scandals in the eyes of all rightminded...
...squad is under the leadership of E. Hill '97, and of the men in training about ten will be selected. It is thought that eight single riders and two tandems will be entered in the intercollegiate races. Men will also be entered for the Harvard meet on June 3, besides the regular circuit races around New Haven. Through the efforts of the Athletic Association the individual expenses of the riders will be very small. The project of having a Yale bicycle meet early in May, similar to the Harvard races in June, has been discussed somewhat, but it is doubtful...
...speaker thought that Congress should begin to retire the notes at the rate of $30,000,000 a year. With the gold which would then flow into our treasury we could pay the outstanding notes. He advocated the increased use of national bank currency. This would give us the true requisites of currency-stability and elasticity...