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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When Jesus proposed to go into Judea, said Dr. Moxom, all the apostles protested save one, Thomas, who is often called the doubter. He was the one to say it was better to go, that they might die with Christ. Yet Thomas, a truehearted and faithful follower of Jesus, often seems to have doubted. But sincere doubt is never a crime. The world has moved forward through doubters. When the heart is sincere, the logic of conscience becomes at last the logic of understanding...
...actor's art have been used to realize-if one may so speak-even the romantic drama. Even these devices, however, do not remove the bar that separates Shakespeare and the average man of today. The fact that his plays are written in verse, that declamation is often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer...
...number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism...
...Harvard Library there is one which seems particularly without reason. I do not mean the rule which forbids you to remove the drawers from the card catalogue, although that frequently forces the reader to sprawl on the floor if he desires to consult the lower drawers, and often causes a considerable waste of time when some one else is using one of the drawers in the same column with the one which you wish to use. Nor do I refer to the law which denies holders of cards the access to any of the newer stacks, although that limits...
...Storey said that when he recalled his college career the scenes which he remembered best were those when news from the war was heard. Very often the newspapers contained accounts of battles and lists of Harvard men who had died for their country. Thirty years ago, on Good Friday night, Lincoln was assassinated. All day long the bells in Cambridge tolled, announcing his death. On the day that General Lee surrendered the college gave a holiday to celebrate the good news. At the Commencement of that year Lowell read for the first time his "Commemoration...