Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much originality in the matter presented by the debaters, but if that is a fault it is one inseparable from debate. It can rarely happen that any member of the team will have any thorough knowledge of the subject assigned or can startle the world by any really new thought upon it. Knowledge, both of the acts involved and, of the pros and cons of the argument, must be got up between the time of giving out the subject and the time of the bebate, and it seems to to me immaterial whether such knowledge be obtained at first hand...
...pity that the Harvard Graduates' Magazine is not better supported by undergraduates. It is perhaps the most representative of Harvard thought and the Harvard atmosphere and spirit of any of the University publications. Every number is full of matter of great interest both to graduates and undergraduates. It takes the academic students out of their local and comparatively narrow college life, shows them the greater University, and gives them the maturer opinions of graduates and members of the Faculty on all topics of general interest to the University...
...degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing and men simply to have learned from him. From the Zulus and Polynesians to the American Indians, beliefs of this sort have been held...
Many tribes of Indians solved the difficulty of invention by simply thinking of the Great Spirit. In this way they thought they received directly from him inspirations to discover things. Among the Polynesians, all human inventions originated from the other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the bereaved family and friends of our brother, and would commend them to the Divine Life which was the thought and inspiration of his life, and which speaks to them and to all the consolation that "he being dead, yet liveth...