Word: speak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...independence does not involve the folly attributed to it, in what does it consist? In two things: in fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience with absolute disregard to popular opinion, and in fearlessly speaking whenever there is a principle at issue. Foibles should be cheerfully tolerated, but not immorality. If, for example, when that amiable idiot Hollis Holworthy (now well known through the Lampoon) is talking like a "Harvard man" about how he is going to be "as full as a goat" to-night, etc., etc., some one would delicately but intelligibly intimate that...
...sympathize with all (that is, to be insincere) is a short and easy road to one kind of popularity. But to act and speak fearlessly, in accordance with conscience, and without regard to the opinion of others, brings something far better than such popularity, - the consciousness of having acted like a man. For, so acting, a man can never, unless he be misunderstood, lose the esteem, respect, and friendship of manly men. If misunderstood he still has the sanction of the voice within, - a sanction which to judicious men outweighs the opinion of a whole theatre of opponents...
...admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...
...know that in the existing order of things at Harvard there are many glaring inconsistencies. We all likewise hope that in some future golden age these present defects will be remedied. The first step toward correcting a fault is to call attention to it, and I wish therefore to speak of the facilities afforded us for learning the French and German languages respectively. In regard to the comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more...
...heart's; we speak in prose...