Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every way a success. About one hundred and fifty men were present. All of the speaking was not delayed until after the dinner was finished, but the poem and several of the toasts were given between different courses. President Emmons introduced Winthrop Ames as toastmaster. J. J. Mach, Jr., read the poem and W. K. Brice, W. M. Briggs, C. M. Flandrau, H. Frazier, G. Murchie and P. W. Whittemore responded to toasts. The speaking was remarkably good, the speech of C. M. Flandrau being particularly witty...
...more than any other man cut loose the modern from the ancient world, and emancipated the human mind from a pedantic and slavish deference to the past. I do not mean that he did it consciously, but he had the courage to trust in his own instincts and to read the world with his own eyes-not in a Greek or Latin or Hebrew translation...
Dante told the Florentines that it was possible to be a philosopher under any stars; Montaigne proved that it was so in his remote Gascon turret. It is curious that Montaigne's Essays is the only speculative book which Shakespeare can be proved to have read. Dante in one sense fought a losing battle, for his life-long endeavor was to keep the thread of tradition unbroken, to reform through the past and not in spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles...
...really more true, in the highest sense, than many a weary chronicle with names and date and place in which "an Amurath to Amurath succeeds" ? Do we know as much of any authentic Danish prince as of Hamlet? Have your ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with...
...notice to the following effect was read in all the Latin and Greek classes yesterday...