Word: topic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...took the opportunity to make a careful study of the educational institutions and systems of the west, to compare them with our own methods, and to make general Investigations for the interest of Harvard. At the many public lectures which he gave, he invariably spoke on some educational topic, connected with the changes of the past few years...
...next meeting of the Modern Language Conference, Professor Chas. Sprague Smith of Columbia College is to speak on some topic connected with Scandinavian literature. Professor Smith, it will be remembered, lectured at Harvard last year on Iceland, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein...
...Saturday evening the topic of Requisites for Success in Christian Work will be discussed. The principal speakers are Lewis K. Morse, Harvard Y. M. C. A., A. A. Stagg, and S. M. Layford. The conference closes Sunday evening with a farewell service at 8.30 p. m. The college Y. M. C. A. will be represented by L. H. Roots, president; W. F. Williams, L. K. Morse and three other representatives not yet decided upon...
...engaging lockers and seldom using them. To be sure these men pay for their lockers, but if they do not use them they should not deprive others of using them and ought to give them up. Speaking of gymnasium inconveniences, we cannot help bringing up that time-worn topic-the wretched condition of the shower-bath. The application to in of the term "totally inadequate" is not too strong. Men are crowded, and served to cold water, and treated much worse than the students at a preparatory school. This is the first thing which ought to be attended...
...Philosophy of Evolution," which forms the topic of the present lecture, is in no sense a finished doctrine, nor is it, on its philosophical side, a very elaborate doctrine. It consists of a criticism and formulation of the presuppositions that are characteristic of an age whose interest in outer nature is mainly an historical interest. The thought of the present century differs from that of the Seventeenth Century chiefly in this prominence of the historical study of the world. For the Seventeenth Century the world was the embodiment of eternal laws; it was a mechanical universe, where all was merely...