Word: actualities
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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These ancient landmarks which are scattered around us on every side have a history, to learn which is to learn much of the history of the United States. In what better way can we acquire this knowledge than by uniting what we gather from books with actual observation? When the memory is tasked to give a description of a place, imagination pictures it much more correctly if it has been seen. So when we endeavor to recollect what the causes of any particular event are, we are much more successful if the spot where the event occurred has been visited...
Their opinions are received by attentive minds and have their influence upon us, not because they come from gray hairs, but because we recognize them as the results of long meditation upon subjects of actual and faithful investigation. From the contrast between the two kinds of instruction we have received, the belief must come that the Freshman year is only a period of initiation, during which you receive the contempt of all, from the highest official to the goody, in order that you may afterward enjoy their greater favor...
...question of smooth water, that can only be told by actual trial. Some one ought to be sent by one of the boat-clubs to try the water for four or five days in a shell, and give a report after thorough examination and personal experience, and also to find out whether the city will clear the course for the race, offer prizes, and oblige steamers to slow up and look out for shells...
...presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which was hardly less imposing than when it was called into full play in the grand rush and machine-like movement of the actual race. What they must have felt we can hardly realize. For months all their thoughts, actions, and even being had been directed to this one moment; a slight mistake now and the results of those months are thrown away. The thousands who were watching them were in full sympathy...