Word: mindful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit of the early Puritans, and other religious sects, existing at the same time. And yet, we sometimes ask ourselves if they were wrong on this matter of toleration, and we are right. Oliver Cromwell expressed the real solution of this difficulty, when he said that in matters of mind, compunction can only be brought about by the light of reason...
Since then it has been at the bat, at the oar, and with the ball, conducted by undergraduates, and has drawn larger audiences. The country does not yet understand that education develops both the body and the mind. No careful observer would take away any of the athletic characteristics of our colleges...
...symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph of the last movement, through all the picture of varied experience, there ran a spirit that brought back to mind the beautiful character of the great man in whose memory, the concert was given...
...sentiment which served to heighten in no small degree, the pleasure which its own beauty would have given. Mr. Nikisch chose the evening's music with the special idea of making it a memorial to Mr. Lowell, and no better choice could have been made, to bring back to mind the variety of gift and emotion which characterized his nature. The Symphonies, especially Beethoven's, are eminently human in quality, and it is due to just this fact, that they inspire so much feeling in people. There was an evident fitness in this music, in which the passions, the hopes...
History cares for the individual only as he represents the family or state. History ought not to be made use of to defend a cause, and we should bear in mind that there are no real breaks in history. The historian first should be a gleaner of facts, and second, should have the power to combine facts so as to bring them out in their full significance...