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A Criticism Of Hume's Analysis Of Causation, Gilbert C. Wittig May 1930

A Criticism Of Hume's Analysis Of Causation, Gilbert C. Wittig

Bachelors’ Theses

The question of cause and effect is an interesting and important one. Upon it and its interpretation many philosophers have argued. Some have said that cause and effect are considered together because of custom, but most of them have declared. the existence of a necessary connection between the two. Among the former is David Hume, an English philosopher of the eighteenth century; among the latter are classed most of the great philosophers of all times, including Plato and Aristotle, St. Thomas and St. Augustine. Indeed, if all of the latter were put side by side the line would be of …

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Evolution And Ethics: A Discussion Of The Ethical Theories Of The Evolution Philosophers, Wilbur E. Kearney May 1930

Evolution And Ethics: A Discussion Of The Ethical Theories Of The Evolution Philosophers, Wilbur E. Kearney

Bachelors’ Theses

It is indeed unfortunate that our mental make-up is so prone to accept as fact whatever appeals to it as novel and plausible. We are, it is true, rational beings but it is just as true that we accept without due consideration and study, any theory which has but a scintilla of truth and a majority of appeal, if that theory is new to us and has embodied in it, something interesting and fanciful. In our quest for modernity, we often overlook or fail to appreciate the fundamental truths of antiquity. And very often, what we think is new, is …

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The Student Designer April 1931, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Apr 1930

The Student Designer April 1931, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The April 1931 issue covered topics including: the death of RISD President Eliza G. Radeke, Mechanical Department honors and news, a Jewelry Design student named Martin Nelson, class updates, satirical and comedic writing, current events happening on campus, RISD sports, and advertisements.

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The Real Causes Of The Death Of Socrates, Casimir F. Hojnacki Apr 1930

The Real Causes Of The Death Of Socrates, Casimir F. Hojnacki

Bachelors’ Theses

Among the men of Pagan antiquity none stand higher mentally nor morally than Socrates. His colossal genius has yet to be equaled. His life was above reproach though his views at times were influenced by the beliefs of the age. He worked for his people, but they appreciated him not. Finally indicted by his enemies, tried and sentenced to death, his last moments were an epitome and a climax of his life. Was he guilty? It is well to sea whether the charges were true or what the real causes of his death were.

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The Student Designer April 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Apr 1930

The Student Designer April 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The April 1930 issue contained a poem, short essays, humorous bits, and an appeal for contributions to The Student Designer. Also included were ads for local businesses and a brief article about The Art Ball held at Memorial Hall on the RISD campus.

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The Student Designer March 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 1930

The Student Designer March 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The March, 1930 issue had an article about the RISD Mechanical Design department, it's history and mission. Gallery talks and art exhibitions in the Providence area were also included. Bits of humor, an essay about the RISD museum, brief articles about music and the arts and local ads were also in this issue.

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The Student Designer February 27, 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Feb 1930

The Student Designer February 27, 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The February 27, 1930 issue had articles about the RISD Jewelry and Silversmithing department, art exhibitions in the Providence area, RISD sports news, class news, and social news. An article about RISD Alum and sculptor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet winning a Harmon Foundation prize for her wood carving of the "Head of a Negro" is present. Also included were local ads and a poem.

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The Student Designer January 31, 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Jan 1930

The Student Designer January 31, 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The January 31, 1930 issue had an article about RISD architecture students who wanted a change in their curriculum. Also included was an article about the RISD textile department. Bits of humor, ads and information about art exhibitions were also in this issue.

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The Student Designer December 1929, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Dec 1929

The Student Designer December 1929, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The issue of December 1, 1929 included a brief article with information about a reception for Mr. Farnum given by the RISD Alumni Association. There also were articles about the Textile and Mechanical Design departments. Bits of humor, club and school news and local art exhibitions were also included.

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The Educational Value Of Christian Doctrine, M. Scholastica Walters Aug 1929

The Educational Value Of Christian Doctrine, M. Scholastica Walters

Bachelors’ Theses

This short thesis is offered with the hope of strengthening the belief that there can be no true education without moral training, and that the moral training without the religious is incomplete, and at times even proves baneful. It is incomplete in as much as vices lead to undermine the physical constitution and to blind the intellect, weaken the faculties and harden the heart; baneful, for intellectual development, without morality, may become a snare and a temptation to virtue.

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Scholasticism An Intellectual Basis And Unifying Principle Of Modern Science, Alice V. Johnson Jul 1929

Scholasticism An Intellectual Basis And Unifying Principle Of Modern Science, Alice V. Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Amid the almost uninterrupted disintegration of systems during the last three centuries, the philosophy of St. Thomas has alone been able to stand the shock of criticism; it alone has proved sufficiently solid and comprehensive to serve as an intellectual basis and unifying principle for all the new facts and phenomena brought to light by modern science.

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A Philosophical Dissertation On The Origin Of Ideas With Special Reference To Aristotle, Marion Thomas Lucareli Jun 1929

A Philosophical Dissertation On The Origin Of Ideas With Special Reference To Aristotle, Marion Thomas Lucareli

Bachelors’ Theses

The object of our inquiry is to investigate the Theory of Knowledge, or as it is better known; The Origin of Ideas. We shall investigate the existence, the origin, and the nature of the universal ideas. We shall determine whether these ideas are founded on the order of existing beings, or whether they are purely a mental construction having no objectivity.

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Safety Education In The Elementary School, Julia Alice Sheehan Jun 1929

Safety Education In The Elementary School, Julia Alice Sheehan

Bachelors’ Theses

In modern civilization we find numerous and varied hazards, without a sufficient knowledge to combat the startling increase of accidents caused by these hazards. In the United States six per cent to the deaths are due to carelessness. The number of American soldiers, who made the supreme sacrifice in Europe during the nineteen months that our country was in the World War, was 77,118. Statistics of the United States Census Bureau show, in the death registration area of the United States during the twelve months of the year 1920, the number of violent deaths, exclusive of suicide, was 68,697. According …

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The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage Jun 1929

The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage

Bachelors’ Theses

During the paet two decades the sports section of the modern newspaper has become an item of almost vital importance to the average American reader. Athletics are becoming such an integral part of our lives that interest today is universal. No doubt the World War gave athletics a tremendous impetous but in our scheme of things, that interest has a sounder foundation. Interest in athletics is fostered in the grammar school and carried on throughout high school and college life. This interest is indicated by the marked attention the world gives today to any athletic contest of importance, whether it …

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The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage Jun 1929

The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage

Bachelors’ Theses

During the past two decades the sports section of the modern newspaper has become an item of almost vital importance to the average American reader. Athletics are becoming such an integral part of our lives that interest today is universal. No doubt the World War gave athletics a tremendous impetous but in our scheme of things, that interest has a sounder foundation. Interest in athletics is fostered in the grammar school and carried on throughout high school and college life. This interest is indicated by the marked attention the world gives today to any athletic contest of importance, whether it …

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A Correlation Between The Scholastic Record Of Graduates Of Indiana State Teachers College And Their Yearly Financial Success After Graduation, Ransom Bramblet Jun 1929

A Correlation Between The Scholastic Record Of Graduates Of Indiana State Teachers College And Their Yearly Financial Success After Graduation, Ransom Bramblet

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A Comparison Of The Professional Success Of Sorority Members Versus Non-Sorority Members Of Indiana State Teachers College, Ruth Mcclain, Ruby Krausbeck Jun 1929

A Comparison Of The Professional Success Of Sorority Members Versus Non-Sorority Members Of Indiana State Teachers College, Ruth Mcclain, Ruby Krausbeck

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Spiritism, Ralph B. Lenz May 1929

Spiritism, Ralph B. Lenz

Bachelors’ Theses

In the study of modern Spiritism, one is face to face with a huge collection of facts, phenomena, theories, and frauds. To sift the worthwhile grains of truth from this heap is really a difficult task. Countless books and pamphlets there are in existence today that give us all manner of information relative to Spiritism. They contain descriptions and explanations of the various phenomena produced at sceances; they put forth the religious doctrines of the Spiritists; they expose fraudulent practices at tires; and usually they advance a few theories on the subject.

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Effective Editorials, Leonard Scheller May 1929

Effective Editorials, Leonard Scheller

Bachelors’ Theses

During the last fifty years journalism has seen a steady decline of the influence of the editorial. The golden age of the editorial existed during the Civil War period, at the time when journalism was still personal instead of institutional as it is today. Among the writers of that period were Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana, Henrey J. Raymond, Joseph Medill and Henry Watterson. These writers were specially effective because they enjoyed a nation-wide reading public due to the fact that the west and the middle west were still undeveloped regions for leadership in thought they turned to the writers …

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Optimism Versus Pessimism, James F. Chapman May 1929

Optimism Versus Pessimism, James F. Chapman

Bachelors’ Theses

All that promotes success, welfare, or happiness is included in the ideal good. If human beings value their lives and the lives of others; take pride in development and progress-in short, if they consider life worth living, as good, as the best thing for them; they nay be called optimists.

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The Teleological Argument For The Existence Of God, Louis A. Wilson Apr 1929

The Teleological Argument For The Existence Of God, Louis A. Wilson

Bachelors’ Theses

After all, the mystic's position is not wholly unintelligible. For while his imagination serves him as an immediate perceptive faculty with which he sees God in his every glance at the universe, his view is not without a philosophical basis. It is from the data furnished us by the universe of our experience that Natural Theology is able to arrive at the knowledge of the existence of God. In doing so it may employ either of three ·types of arguments. If it begins with a consideration of the primary attributes proper to all finite beings as such, it is metaphysical; …

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Source Of Moral Obligation, B. Eugene Hibner Apr 1929

Source Of Moral Obligation, B. Eugene Hibner

Bachelors’ Theses

The question of the source of moral obligation is one over which great conflicts arise, and concerning which the various schools vary widely. There actually are two possible theories:- the Scholastic theory, which claims that the source of moral obligation is the necessary will of God; and the Rationalistic school, which makes reason, whether individual or of the universal substance, the source of obligation. Kantian Ethics, the foremost of the rationalistic ethics, advocates "practical reason as the source of obligation." However, there are many sub-theories concerning this question of obligation, but we find that they are influenced to a great …

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The Philosophy Of Eugene O'Neill, Judith Reynick Jan 1929

The Philosophy Of Eugene O'Neill, Judith Reynick

Master's Theses

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Possibilities Of Character Formation In Our Public Schools, Julia I. Shinnick Aug 1928

Possibilities Of Character Formation In Our Public Schools, Julia I. Shinnick

Bachelors’ Theses

The end of all education should be the formation of character. Father Hull defines character as "life dominated by principles". No sentence containing four words expresses more food for thought. Life is made up of thoughts, words, and actions. The problem is how are these thoughts, words, and actions determined? The man without character acts upon impulse and he speaks and acts as these impulses seize him. If such a man's life is at all consistent it is because he lacks any originality or initiative to do otherwise. His character depends upon his impulses, or upon the good or bad …

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Childhood Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century, Kathryn L. Welch Jun 1928

Childhood Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century, Kathryn L. Welch

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the happy voices and sweet faces of children that gladden life, for they give a spirit of youth to everything and their wistful joy and sense of wonder, their simplicity and trustfulness, their winning ways and innocent mirth, help to make others in the world hopeful and happy too.

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The Care Of Old Age In Wisconsin, Eugenia Leone Schmitz Jun 1928

The Care Of Old Age In Wisconsin, Eugenia Leone Schmitz

Bachelors’ Theses

With the changes and. advances made in the industrial system in the past hundred years caused by the rapid spread of the industrial revolution and the growth of the modern factory system, we find the question and problem of the care of the aged increasingly more difficult to solve than it was before this time. In the days of tribal life the aged were looked upon as men of wisdom; they were honored and were given first consideration for their comfort. In the days of the guild system, the old tradesman and artisan worked as long as he was able …

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Mothers’ Pensions, Annette E. Schmidt Jun 1928

Mothers’ Pensions, Annette E. Schmidt

Bachelors’ Theses

Man gradually recedes from his primitive forefathers and in like proportion he recedes from his barbaric days. With this recession as the centuries passed man adopted a kindlier and more humane attitude toward his fellow man; he no longer hanged his neighbor for stealing a kerchief, nor placed him in stocks for public ridicule. Man has come to realize that other men are also human beings with the same tendencies and emotions. The equality of man was definitely expressed in the Declaration of Independence, "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable …

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The Development Of Character Education, Evelyn M. Shaughnessy Jun 1928

The Development Of Character Education, Evelyn M. Shaughnessy

Bachelors’ Theses

All down through the Christian years of Civilization the ultimate end of all education has been the production of men and women of character and high ideals. Then as the rush and commercialism of modern times swept upon us, this real end of education seemed to be overshadowed in the search for mere information.

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Cause: Our Idea Of Cause Has Objective Reality, Edward Kazimierz Latocha Jun 1928

Cause: Our Idea Of Cause Has Objective Reality, Edward Kazimierz Latocha

Bachelors’ Theses

If we are to know things about us, there must be reasons for them. We must be able to answer the question, why is it? Our answer to this question will give us the sufficient reason for the thing. Taking for granted that things about us can be and are known, we arrive at the self evident principle that everything that is, has a sufficient reason for its being. Since reality comprises the possible and the actual beings, there must be reasons for the possibility of the possible and reasons for the existence of the actual. The reason for the …

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Formation Of Ideas, Clarence Tennessen Jun 1928

Formation Of Ideas, Clarence Tennessen

Bachelors’ Theses

MAN! What a masterpiece of creation! What a wonder of wonders! In composition how harmonious, how singular! Regarded from merely a mechanical viewpoint, the human body is so infinitely complex, so harmonious, so responsive, so delicate and yet so powerful, that all wonders of nature dwarf in comparison. Our huge buildings and beautiful edifices all fade into insignificance when compared to that edifice of Man. The charming splendor and thrilling beauty of nature, of her snowcapped mountains, her warbling streams, her thundering falls and her mighty canyons that defy description, grow placid when compared to Man. Thus, Man stands alone.

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