Word: production
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stock in the eyes of sober-minded people. It is all well enough to have a foot-ball game once in a while for a little exercise, but for a number of colleges to take more interest in such things than they do in their studies, is a peculiar product of Eastern superiority. - Michigan Chronicle...
...laws of thought, of evidence, and of logic, and not rules of action, conduct us to truth or falsehood, and thus when rules of morality, as well as all else, are subjected to the scrutiny of reason, they cease even indirectly to influence mental growth and become themselves the product of thought. Thus do we find, superstitions apart, that moral character is the perfect blossom of culture, which differs in several regards from the author's remark. To say that the cultured man is the perfect man, and must therefore have moral character, is true; but we needed no angel...
...student to follow afterward, should be a function of this University. At present nothing of the kind is attempted. "The idea seems to prevail that an orator, like a poet, is born, not made; whilst the fact is clear, that a real orator is the most artificial product of human education...
...were delivered in Upper Massachusetts on Friday evening of last week. This was the first occasion on which the II H had emerged from its mysterious haunts, commonly supposed to be in the immediate vicinity of Brighton Street, for such a purpose, and curiosity was generally aroused concerning the product of so many years' incubation. The hall was well filled with the wearers of the purple and white, and their friends...