Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...musical art under the influence of Handel and Bach. These two great composers gave a great impetus to the progress of music, and were among the earliest to develop the truly Tentonic school. The fortunes of the two men were widely different, though both were of the highest genius and contemporaries. Handel won immediate recognition, and lived in London, winning the highest honor and respect from the English people, while Bach remained in his obscure German home, but little known outside of it, and soon forgotten even there. Handel's memory and works have been kept alive ever since...
...temperance cause is not what it once was, small and unnoticed. All over the United States and England we have to-day on our side the greatest scholars and thinkers, and men of medical genius. The temperance cause is a right one; its principles are lawful, sensible, sane; and it demands and should receive respectful attention from all who love their fellow men. Very largely it has that attention today...
From the Dartmouth we learn that Harvard has failed to turn out a number of "great men" proportionate to the number of dollars represented by the endowment. The views of our e. c. on the ratio of genius to college wealth are novel, to say the least. The Dartmouth says: "It is a moderate statement to affirm that in proportion to its wealth and outward facilities, Dartmouth has exerted a far mightier influence for good than Harvard. To equalize the record, Harvard ought to have produced some nine or ten Websters or Choates. But she has not done...
...association must of necessity yield to the opinion and change the rules. That there will be great changes this year, and every one of them in the direction desired by the committee, Elihu feels sure, but alas! our saint and his suggestion are outside that inner circle of genius and culture which the committee represents...
...rooms more often too warm than too cold. Why can't we have the good old "happy medium," or at least some attempts to attain it? Nothing wars so powerfully against the gaining of knowledge as an unpleasant atmosphere. To be sure some argue for the best development of genius under uncomfortable circumstances, but then not many of us have genius. Great genius may survive conflicts with circumstances and gain strength at the same time, but a little genius is quickly and not uneasily destroyed. But great genius is rare among men in comparison with the small genius, which...