Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...before reading a course of lectures, one should wait until he felt that he had mastered the subject in all its details, a sudden dumbness would fall over the professor's chair and the desk of the lyceum. At three score one would still be studying; at three score and ten he would still be meditating on what he had read, and ere he was ready with his inaugural discourse, his own headstone would be reading a pithy lecture on the shortness of life and the length of books. So true do we find it that wisdom is that
...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...
...Celt's quick feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate...
which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...
THERE are a few rooms in Ware Hall, the new dormitory at the corner of Harvard and Ware streets, still to be leased. Plans and prices can be had at Thurston...