Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...important for the members of 1919 to remember that successful and satisfactory elections depend on their free use of this nominating privilege. Too often in past years dissatisfaction has been expressed with the way in which the elections were conducted by men who never once thought of making use of their rights to express themselves before the election day. During the next two weeks the Seniors will probably dabble in politics but if 1919 lives up to its former standards and endeavors, its criticisms will tend rather towards thoughtful construction than towards thoughtless denunciation...
Making the world over has been the profession of Harvard College ever since its earliest days. It nourished such image-breakers as John Hancock, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Wendell Phillips--all of whom were thought by the "best people of the time" to be turning the world upsidedown. What are we here for whether students or teachers, but to concrete what we find to be good and permanent? and on that sub structure to build new mansions for our souls? What is the use of all this insistence on a man's thinking for himself...
...gentleman's grade of C" he flatly thought beneath him; his idea of a gentleman's grade was hard and thoughtful work on whatever the gentleman undertook. That landed him in Phi Beta Kappa, by direct action. Or rather it landed him among people who chose college because it was a place to do something, and then did it as well as they knew how. That principle he carried throughout his life. He never skimped or spared himself. He put Theodore Roosevelt, all there was of him, right into whatever he undertook...
Theodore Roosevelt found Harvard a place where a man thinks for himself because he has some knowledge of what other men have thought for themselves Throughout his life he was a great reader, and what is more a tenacious reader, who liked to break in on other people's specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary...
...their guides. It is impossible to measure the enormous effect upon public life of a man who was for years the foremost in the nation, on the honor of public service. He smashed the conventional ways of thinking and doing, he ignored the maxims of the professional politician, he thought that nations could be carried on like families, with consideration for others, with safeguard of the interests of posterity, with honesty and openness of dealing...