Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attribute this lack of interest toward the college partly to its being in this city. It is lost sight of in this centre of business, fashion, and pleasure, surrounded as it is by other institutions of learning, libraries and museums. Why, Harvard is the great thing in Boston, as Yale is in New Haven; and the town of Princeton would be unknown were it not for Nassau Hall. Such a state of affairs does not exist here, and yet Columbia is doing a great work with the means at her command." The accounting for this lack of interest by saying...
...meeting of the Havard Union last evening the question of German State socialism was thoroughly debated. The sympathies of the meeting, as shown by the several votes taken, were all decidedly opposed to the system proposed by the Socialists. The next debate will be, "Resolved, That the present tendency toward monopoly in the United States should be checked by legislative enactment...
...Cambridge, and, in one or more lectures, give us the benefit of their scholarship. If such lectures by able men could be given among us, as are in vogue at the Sorbonne or College de France at Paris, we should derive immeasurable benefit from them, and they would go toward establishing Harvard more firmly as the centre of education among the American people...
...importance, and that his only worth lies in quiet, submissive union with all conscious beings, in so far as he has anything to do with them. But this is morality, and thus, if our mental growth is simply full enough, it does lead us in the end toward morality. Moral law is in harmony with the laws of mental growth in all cases of completed growth, and thus, however evil the world may be, there is always in a man's nature a tendency that leads one to rest nowhere but in the possession of true moral insight. This, then...
...duties. As a result several new industries, notably the manufacture of silk, have arisen, which would be ruined at once if a sudden lowering were made in the tariff on these articles. As these investments were made in good faith, justice demands that no sudden action be taken looking toward abolition of duties on these articles, but that the duties be lowered gradually...