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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
True conservatism, however, in just proportion, makes memory possible; preserves faithfulness, and with reverend hand upholds to us noble examples of the heroes and the saints who are gone. It stores up for succeeding generations the knowledge and the moral worth of the past. Thus also wise radicalism is a power for good because it is truly progressive, creative, affirmative...
...also of considerable value to men who are already members of these clubs, since in Mr. Copeland's course they may obtain able criticism on their work. We feel sure that Mr. Copeland's new courses will be as successful as those he has given in the past...
...debating clubs offer almost the only means of training for men who wish to take up debating, and in past years the men who represented Harvard have with few exceptions been chosen from one or the other of these clubs. Competitive debates for membership in these two organizations have already been announced. The Union will hold a debate for candidates tonight and the Forum will hold one next week. It is as true in debating as in athletics, that the larger the number of candidates, the greater the chances of getting good men, and consequently the greater the chances...
...debating club meets today in Sever 5 at half past three o'clock, for extemporaneous discussion. Members of the University are invited to be present and to speak...