Word: master
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME twenty Sophomores dined at Delmonico's on the evening of December 29. Mr. Curtis presided and Mr. Tower was toast-master. The committee of arrangements, to whom great credit is due for their able management, consisted of Messrs. Sherwood, Ogden, and Post...
...Walker graduated with great distinction in the class of 1814, at the age of twenty. Many of his classmates attained great eminence in after life, especially Benjamin A. Gould, Master for many years of the Boston Latin School, Rev. Drs. Greenwood and Lawson, Judge Pliny Merrick, and, above all, Prescott, the historian. Dr. Walker was uniformly on terms of great intimacy and affection with his classmates, and eight of them met at his house on the sixtieth anniversary of his graduation...
...last is your master now, bells of Bilbao...
...esprit. As if to show the absurdity of knowledge in general, apart from things known, he derisively calls his book "An Essay on Human Understanding," without the article. Nowhere is his satire more crushing or his humor more delightful than in his chapters on innate ideas. In a masterly way he states the arguments so that they confute themselves. He shows that his real opinion is that all ideas are innate, and exposes the fallacy of believing any to be derived from sensation or reflection. Here, as well as elsewhere in his book, he is in strict harmony with Descartes...
...glow of enthusiasm for work, a thrill of pleasure at some excellent saying, give it expression. Do not be ashamed of these emotions. Cherish the natural sentiment of personal devotion to the teacher who calls out your better powers. It is a great delight to serve an intellectual master. We Americans are but too apt to lose this happiness. German and French students get it. If ever in after years you come to smile at the youthful reverence you paid, believe me, it will be with tears in your eyes...