Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Interpretation of Myths. - What is a myth? Euhemeristic theory. Comparison of myths. Hercules and Cacus. Max Muller's interpretation inadequate. Daphne. The Erinys. Primitive thought. Object-souls and indwelling spirits...
...actually learn in college that is to be of value to them in active life, it is the mental training which they receive. A level head and a broad judgment will be active and intelligent in whatever work they are engaged; and this breadth of judgment and intelligence of thought is just what college with its four years of recitations and examinations will give to any person who is capable of receiving it. It is untrue, then, to say that a man who has derived these advantages from a college course is inferior to the man who has not done...
...fact gave them a reason for existence which made them, though they were not very entertaining, very popular indeed. I am told, however, that their days of power are numbered, - that the outsiders have mustered this year, and borne off in triumph the offices which the poor old societies thought were theirs by right. If this is true, it is possible that the popularity of the societies may follow their prestige. However, whether this occurs or not, you had better join one. If it does nothing more, it will serve as a bond of friendship between yourself...
Their character and their appearance are as far removed as possible from what is found in the vulgar American whom we all find so disagreeable. And as their manners are easily copied, and their mode of thought is easily burlesqued, nothing is more common than for an American, who is convinced that he is a gentleman, and therefore a different being from the vulgar herd, to transform himself into a burlesque imitation of the blase European. Harvard men are particularly liable to this temptation. Their education is more cosmopolitan - if I may use the word - than any other on this...
...Each thought if her hair was most gracefully curled...