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...become a writer and the desperate real with which he worked towards that end. "The lesson of Stevenson's life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which is to manifest in all of Stevenson's works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including...
...ticket system, more assistant waiters were employed and the regular waiters are now able to serve more men. If, after the reassignment of seats, it is found that the service is impaired or the tables are over-crowded, the membership will be allowed to sink in spite of the manifest advantages of the increase. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE...
...visiting committee of the alumni in charge of raising funds for Emerson Hall desire to lay that project before all who value Emerson and all Harvard men, that all many have an opportunity to manifest their interest by contributions, large or small. As a memorial to Emerson, this building, devoted to philosophic and philanthropic teaching at the University where Emerson himself was successively student, lecturer and overseer, and taught in by men like Professors James, Royce, Palmer, Munsterberg, Peabody, and Santayana, Seems singularly fitting. The hall itself is greatly needed at the University. For the further development of the rapidly...
...when spoken by the best speakers, a most vigorous as well as an exceedingly sweet and poetical language, it is in its usual utterance even among educated people, and especially in the United States, the most abused language in the world. For the last twenty years there has been manifest in the professions and in society a carelessness in speech and in manner of delivery which makes one ask: What is to be the end of this decadence...
...Browning assumes the existence of God; and in his search to confirm his faith, he finds God manifest in power, knowledge and love. In all the vastness of nature, he finds God's power; and blended with power, he sees knowledge, for this power of God always works intelligently. But it is through His love that God shows himself most clearly to Robert Browning love for which the human heart cries out; infinite love which is the true explanation of infinite power and infinite knowledge...