Word: finds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great problem in our lives to find a fixed home in the universe. Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes says, "The world has a thousand roosts, but only one nest;" and it is this nest that we should strive for, this position in which we feel ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them...
...find this "nest", this home in the universe? Through the faculties given us we must realize that, created by Nature, we are in accord with Nature. We must obey the laws of the world, laws by which we are built up to higher conditions; for in obedience to them the soul of man can gather all the outside influences which surround it into a soul which shall be beautiful with a beauty like that of the flower, a beauty direct from...
...such graduates as Dr. Brooks and Dr. Peabody that we find embodied the noblest examples of Harvard men. If it were possible to point to any two persons as types of the best and greatest which Harvard can claim as her own. we could choose none more appropriately than the two who have been taken from us so recently. The college has already mourned the loss of Dr. Brooks and is still mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been...
...eyes for all knowledge of Astronomy and we must therefore understand of what our eyes are capable It is a curious fact in vision that we cannot be sure that we tell that which we see, because our reason takes part in what we observe. In order to find the points of the compass we must first find a level surface and then by the arrangement of angles we must find the zenith of the sky. A single point however does not help us, and another must be obtained. Looking to the north we can find stars forming circles...
...return stroke, and another advocates an incline to an almost comical extent. Rowing apparatus could be devised which might determine experimentally whether the straight back or the curved back constitute the best form. Instantaneous photographs of men in different positions might also be of use. I do not find anything approaching quantitative measurements in the methods of training the crew; and there is no body of collected material which the members of the crew can study year by year. Every thing is traditional, and the torch of knowledge is handed down from one coach to another frequently badly trimmed...