Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When I attempted to connect myself with Harvard College, writes Julian Hawthorne in Harper's Magazine, there was one person appertaining to it of whom I often thought with awe and reverent curiosity. The fame of him preceded by several months my actual introduction to him, so that my imagination had time to picture him in all manner of portentous guises. The gentleman to whom I refer was an undergraduate, and at that period a sophomore. He was commonly spoken of as "Bill Blaikie," and his claim to my reverence lay in the fact that he was the typical strong...
...objects by submitting occasionally to its members lists of book which it regards as desirable reading on current political and economic questions; by supplying the books so selecting annual courses of reading for its members; by supplying the books so selected at the smallest possible advance beyond actual cost; by furnishing and circulating at a low price, and in cheap form, sound economic and political literature in maintenance and illustration of the principles above announced as constituting the basis of its organization: and by assisting in the formation of reading and corresponding circles and clubs for discussing social, political...
...liveliest sort. It is undeniable, however, that there is, in proportion to this interest, a noticeably small amount of definite knowledge and hence of definite thinking on this subject among both the great public, and among men of broad education. In a practical way, instruction in the actual status of political systems is fairly adequate in this country. Just as in England, it has been said, interest attaches more to the history of the English constitution as a growing political system, so in the United States, interest attaches to the history and interpretation of the constitution as positive...
...proper study for mankind is man, and that one of the trinity (so to say) of the humanitarian studies-literature, philosophy and political science-which has to do most broadly with man's concerns-with his concerns as a social being, has been neglected the longest so far as actual academic institutions go. The watchword, which best represents the spirit of the new movement which is on its way to revolutionize the old state of things in this study, is Freeman's well-known definition of History as past Politics; Politics as present History. This is the principle which animates...
...Shakspere Club continues the work so successfully begun at its recent public meeting, we may look for a decided improvement in the speaking at the competition for the Boylston prizes in May. Actual practice, and a good deal of it, is the great secret of success in all kinds of public speaking. The Shakspere Club furnishes such opportunities to its members, and thereby fills a long felt want in the study of elocution at Harvard...