Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...umpire gave an exhibition of how blind a man can be at some times, and of how much he can see at others. His decisions were uniformly against Harvard...
Hume was termed the greatest of British speculative thinkers and his skepticism-that one event follows another but without connection-was shown to be fruitful in its results, though blind in its application...
...Bates, '90, is teaching a school for the blind in Philadelphia...
Miss Elinor Buckingham, a senior in the Harvard Annex, has been appointed an instructor in the Royal Normal College for the Blind at London...
...like to know the thoughtful answer of a graduating class to that question. Plenty of reason there would be for hesitation. Plenty of slavery to circumstances, to the comfort of the moment, to the well-being of the body which seems to leave the soul no chance; plenty of blind loyalty to old tradition; plenty of conventional standards of honor and manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted as a duty, so that public spirit and the open...