Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...point to any two persons as types of the best and greatest which Harvard can claim as her own. we could choose none more appropriately than the two who have been taken from us so recently. The college has already mourned the loss of Dr. Brooks and is still mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been to Harvard. We can form little idea of the vast influence for good which he exerted for the college while in the vigor...
Although it is twelve years since Dr. Peabody has had active connection with the college, the tradition of all honor and love toward him still abides with us. It was certainly a remarkable twenty years that he passed here as college preacher, years so full of lofty unselfishness and profound thought, of eager assistance and inspiring suggestion to the students that reverence for Dr. Peabody came to be a vital part of all Harvard thought...
...might, if I were inclined, found this sentiment of affection for Harvard upon the honor she has done to me in adopting me as one of her own sons; but I prefer to say that I make the gift with still greater pleasure as the president of a sister university, so far as this element enters into the motive of it, in glad recognition of what we all owe to Harvard...
...either hypnotizer or subject, but the former must be skilled in the art of making fitting suggestions, the latter must desire to be hypnotized, making the effort to go to sleep while giving attention to any expressions of the will of the hypnotizer. When successfully hypnotized the subject is still awake to the voice of the hypnotizer and can converse with him. Having now no desire to make prominent his individual will the subjects capacity for imitation, which is ordinarily marked by an assertive individuality, becomes the prominent thing. Under these conditions he shows the remarkable susceptibility to suggestion, characteristic...
...have the worldly man. In fact, not one of us is entirely free from worldliness. We are surrounded by men who have no better aim than to obtain riches for riches' sake, or power for power's sake, and we cannot but feel their influence. And still it is comforting to know that no man is entirely worldly. Every man has a noble ideal at some time in his life. We all realize, too, that that only is true living, which has for its aim the bettering of humanity. If our aim be to get riches, we hope...