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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received the first number of The Amateur Advocate, a sheet which proceeds from the wilds of East Cambridge, and bears for its motto the significant words, "Truth, Virtue, and Temperance." It asserts itself as being "devoted to the study and progress of literature among the younger classes," nor does the quality of its reading matter belie this declaration. We quote from the "Salutatory": "We have done our best under the circumstances, but we hope to do better. In the hurry and bustle contingent to the starting of a paper, we have tried to make this number satisfactory...
...Pilgrim's Progress" for the thing I mean...
PERHAPS there is no saying more fitted for Americans than this. We are likely to mistake bustle for business, precipitation for progress. In her struggle for equality with nations that have had the maturity of centuries, America has partially lost sight of the dignity which is one of their leading characteristics. Not that we accomplish nothing by the spirit of progress, which is proverbial in us, and which has so often astonished even ourselves; but what we gain, we get frequently at a disadvantage. There is much to praise, but also something to condemn in despatch. It is liable...
...book after book - novels, sermons, poems, biographies, travels, plays, histories - only that they may feel, when they have finished, that they have read them and are therefore "well-read" men. How different from people in the last century, who perused their Clarissa Harlowe, Rape of the Lock, Pilgrim's Progress, and Shakespeare till they almost knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand and one others, and try to get some idea...
...generous a manner as to give the strongest evidence of the growing interest felt for the society. So much for what has been done. It is in the future, however, that the Sophomores look for the best fruit of their labors, and are anxious that the spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those yet to come. Their active connection with the Institute is soon to cease, and the responsibility will rest with their successors taking advantage of the favoring circumstances under which they receive it to advance it even farther, and make it truly...