Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...SEMINARY IN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS. "The Thought Method' in Teaching Reading." Mr. Joseph S. Gaylord. Lawrence...
...statues keeping guard against the snares of wind and rain, and silence muffling a landscape with a counterpane,--figures too metaphysical to be happy. Mr. R. J. Walsh's "The Death of Cleopatra" has gained a prize as a translation from Horace. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "Odalisque," clear in thought, admirable in melody, worthily maintains the standard of "Advocate" verse...
...fame so deathless? Because in youth he made one high resolve and carried it out. He came to this country in search of liberty of thought, and of speech. By that act he tied his name to the great love that lives in the human heart, the love of freedom. And when he came to die he started the great custom of giving his estate for the advancement of education. A stream of benefactions has followed that first gift of the sick young minister, a stream that is characteristic of the American belief in education. And a host of young...
...this University. A Memorial Society! What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within a few months of his arrival--he little thought of what a fine monument he was building for himself. And best of all it is a living, growing monument, which will be greater 300 years from today than it is now. John Harvard is commemorated also in the lives of every man who has been educated in this institution...
...been made. A short time after the passage of this act, the Cambridge Bridge Commission passed a vote requesting Mr. Jackson, the city engineer of Boston, to make plans for a new bridge costing about $35,000, to be erected near the site of the present bridge. It was thought that a larger expenditure was unnecessary, as the alumni will probably erect a bridge over the Charles at some future time which will cost several hundred thousand dollars and will be more in keeping with the surroundings than any temporary structure...