Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are so many who aspire to be Daniel Websters, and Edwin Forests, and Phillips Brooks's, that it is almost to be feared the supply may ultimately come to exceed the demand. The examples of such men too often tend to mislead the rising generation, who aim at the result, but do not place a just value on the means by which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other...
...Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given conditions and limitations, has so wide a choice of means that his task becomes almost an unconscious one, and his own instinct can perhaps best guide...
...much stronger. Noise and boisterousness would be altogether out of harmony with the spirit of any occasion in which Mr. Irving takes part. If we are to pay a tribute, it must be an acceptable tribute. Then another thing is to be considered. The audience, while composed almost entirely of Harvard men and their friends, will comprise a hundred or so of outsiders. They would enjoy noise, and would have nothing to lose by it. If Harvard men started to cheer, in all probability these outsiders would seize on the moment for extreme demonstrations, and then what of Harvard...
...appreciating the high prices which students are forced to pay for the re-soling and repairing of shoes among the different trades men about the square, has established a department in the cellar of their present building where all such work can be done about a third cheaper than almost anywhere else in Cambridge...
...side-walk is so muddy and sloppy that the men in numbers leave it and take to the less muddy, but equally disagreeable, walking in the middle of the street. So many have to take this walk to attend lectures and to meet laboratory engagements that it seems almost as needful to have a dry walk there as in the yard...