Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incomplete record is little better than none. If one or two important events are not entered, the very nights on which they occur may be taken by something equally important. We have a wealth of lectures to choose from, and they should not be arranged so that a man must choose between two or more which he is equally anxious to attend, when nothing else in which he is particularly interested is scheduled during a long interval...
Professor Peabody spoke of a certain reserve and dignity which surrounded Phillips Brooks, so that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity...
...leader must be an ordinary man, a man of the crowd. Brilliancy is one of the most dangerous gifts for one who is destined for leadership, and can be useful only when it is subordinated to the needs of the crowd. The people do not exist for the leader, but the leader for the people...
...University. How many men who intend to take up law are willing to try for even one team while they are in College? The preparation and delivery of a debate--especially the speeches in rebuttal--will be of great advantage to a lawyer, and less obviously to any man whose vocation demands quick and logical thinking...
...speaking of vocation, he said that a man who has gained this sense must guard against letting it separate him from the crowd: his first duty must be to show other men that they too have a call. That great failure in leadership, Napoleon Bonaparte, had the fault that he saw only his own star of destiny, and there came a time when other men failed to see that star. Men of vocation, to use their power must fit in with other men of vocation. The alliance of Wash- ington and Hamilton: of Lincoln with the members of his cabinet...