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There are so many who aspire to be Daniel Websters, and Edwin Forests, and Phillips Brooks's, that it is almost to be feared the supply may ultimately come to exceed the demand. The examples of such men too often tend to mislead the rising generation, who aim at the result, but do not place a just value on the means by which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other...
...They could not be expected to furnish detailed information on demand; Morrill, 424.- (3) They would not be listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good speakers could mislead; Morrill, 422. - (5) The committee system would continue to control legislation: Hart, Atlantic, LVII. 380; Hoar, North Amer. Review, CXXVIII, 121-2; Nation, XVI, 235. - (c) Responsibility would not be centralized, for unless cabinet directed all legislation - (1) Private members would introduce conflicting bills. - (2) Cabinet would advance privately any measures...
...sale a set of notes on lectures, when he knows that the lecturer is greatly opposed to any such publication. Moreover, such notes, not having passed under the careful revision of the lecturer, are most likely to contain inaccuracies of more or less magnitude, and are therefore likely to mislead students. But we suspect this thing will continue to be done whether it is liked or not until the instructors see fit to do something in opposition to those men who propose to publish notes. Students find it to their advantage to review their courses by the best possible methods...
...libels contained in the article. The writer is so evidently behind the times, and his spiteful motive is so thinly disguised, that it would hardly be worth while to reply to him if he had not manipulated the figures from the catalogue in such a way as easily to mislead the casual reader. What his letter is worth as intelligent criticism may be shown by his glaring mistakes in saying: "C. J. was and still is the Register of the Faculty;" the Everett "Athenaeum is the rival of the Institute. it flourishes and attracts many of the men;" and other...
...orders. His most useful instruments of research are hypothesis and experiment. The demands made by the scientific method wherever employed are very numerous, but of these only, four need now be considered: (1) Singleness of purpose, the only object being the attainment of truth. All preconceived notions liable to mislead must be laid aside. (2) Directness of aim. One must not be diverted by other interests. (3) Thoroughness. Every point, however trivial, must be examined carefully, and always with a due sense of proportion. (4) Fearlessness. Compliance with these demands, which are made by the scientific method...