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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/17/1896 | See Source »

True conservatism, however, in just proportion, makes memory possible; preserves faithfulness, and with reverend hand upholds to us noble examples of the heroes and the saints who are gone. It stores up for succeeding generations the knowledge and the moral worth of the past. Thus also wise radicalism is a power for good because it is truly progressive, creative, affirmative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/17/1896 | See Source »

...Hastings, February 20, Mr. E. A. Zanetti will give the club an informal talk on "The Spanish Drama." As this is also the annual meeting, an election of officers will be held at the commencement of the meeting. All regular club members are requested to be on hand at 8 o'clock sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermaid Club Notice. | 2/15/1896 | See Source »

...Hastings, February 20, Mr. E. A. Zanetti will give the club an informal talk on "The Spanish Drama." As this is also the annual meeting, an election of officers will be held at the commencement of the meeting. All regular club members are requested to be on hand at 8 o'clock sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermaid Club Notice. | 2/14/1896 | See Source »

...Hastings, February 20, Mr. E. A. Zanetti will give the club an informal talk on "The Spanish Drama." As this is also the annual meeting, an election of officers will be held at the commencement of the meeting. All regular club members are requested to be on hand at 8 o'clock sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermaid Club. | 2/13/1896 | See Source »

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