Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last speaker. Ten years ago, he said, the men from outside colleges who were studying in the Graduate School, formed the "Harvard Intercollegiate Club." Soon afterward, the name was changed to "Graduate Club." Its present aim to cultivate social as well as intellectual qualities, should be sufficient inducement, he thought, for all new-comers to join the Club...
Yesterday Rattle thought he would try to ride the Reg at the swimming pool of the Riverside Recreation Grounds. He found it so funny that he laughed in the middle of his slide, went over laughing, and came out so full of water that his friends had to hang him up by the heels...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
...weeks which have passed since the April vacation and the first war excitement, have seen many men considering the question of enlistment. Some have left the University, many more have stayed. In fact so many who thought strongly of going have remained behind, influenced by conservative advice, that the few who have gone are not always remembered. A great deal has been well said in advising under-graduates to go slow and consider the legitimate motives for enlisting, a great deal has been ill said in complaint and criticism now that the war is on and it is necessary...
...Cambridge post office, occupying Nos. 18 and 22 Boylston street, in Read's block, was yesterday formally opened and given up throughout to the inspection of the public. As the lease for the old office has not expired it has been thought best not to conduct the business of the mails in the new office until it is completely finished. This will probably be by Saturday...