Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...room, far from sight or hearing of any human being, I tried to consider calmly the terrible problem. But I could arrive at no satisfactory result. Here were the facts - the vision which had showed me my friend's murderer, and Mr. Edmund Austen, brother of the young woman - who was my plighted wife. Ah, what a deep and bitter tragedy was expressed in those few words! How could I account for these things except through supernatural causes? How could I account for supernatural causes? I had not been trained to believe in so startling spiritual manifestations as these. They...
...Crew were perfectly right in being unwilling, after making the great sacrifices that they do, to risk the chances of winning their races, by going into bad quarters. The Executive Committee and the Crew fully appreciate the generous steps taken by the College towards solving the whole problem so satisfactorily...
...species of greatness which inspires awe. Now we do not believe in the propriety of the existence of great men. We think that all men should be equal. We do not care how the equality is brought about, whether by lowering the few or raising the many. In the problem we have to deal with, however, we believe that raising the many is the more practicable of the two alternatives. So we propose to raise; and if you wish to, reader, you can see us. We intend to teach all men how to recognize and identify all other...
...grand division of the subject, where care and study are not only useful but even absolutely necessary, is closely connected with the question just discussed, but differs from it in one very important point. Then it was a question of selecting, from what was outside, the best. Now the problem is to eradicate, from what is within, the worst. The results tend in the same direction; the processes are distinct. Any little peculiarities must be carefully guarded against. The more amiable they are, the more dangerous they are. Your motto must be 'upward and onward," even at the cost...
Yours, '81."Sept. 12, 1771. Having studied late into the night last eve over that very difficult problem in Euclid, called the pons asinorum, I over-slept myself this morning beyond six o'clock. On this account I was unable to cleanse the shoes of my master F., a Senior, but was obliged to hurry to Chapel. Consequently, when I returned after breakfast, F. called me into his room, and taking down a whip he is wont to use in riding, despite my entreaties, he so belabored my shoulders that I almost fainted. This is the first occasion that...