Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon English writing, carry within themselves the true theory of thorough culture in this most important branch, but at the same time, there are many things which require just as much practice relatively as criticism. This class of work binds one more or less to a set method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt? Is the attempt worth while? Is the attempt successful?" These three phrases stand like ghouls...
...desire to impress on those whom they address the need not of dreaming but of work, of work not for the selfish and narrow advancement of self, but for the nobler, grander love of helping those who, through ignorance or poverty, are unable to help themselves. It is a thought worthy of consideration, worthy of more than consideration of action...
...have heard the wild cheering in front of the newspaper offices in Boston Tuesday night, a stranger in the country would have thought that some man by the name of Harvard was running for office, and in the lack of sufficient votes to carry him through, his friends were trying the Mexican plan and starting a revolution. The exact appropriateness of cheering for a college in the occasion of a state election is not apparent to anyone besides the youthful perpetrators of the deed. As there was not the excitement in this campaign which has been the excuse for similar...
...every college should have its society for discussion and debate, and that every college student should at least attend the meetings of such a society, and if possible take part in those meetings. Knowledge of parliamentary practices, power of debate and of rapid and at the same time logical thought and with these the attendant gathering of a something more than mere general information on current topics, are things that will be of no slight importance in later life...
...native population upon the development of the natural character was the special topic. After touching upon the characteristics of the mixed population that settled California, the lecturer proceeded to give an account of the first forcible measures by which our government gained a foothold in the state. It is thought that Captain Fremont received secret instructions from Washington to incite the American settlers against the Mexicans. As a result of these underhanded negotiations there was an uprising of the settlers which became known as the Bean Flag affair. The leaders in the movement were Dr. Semple and William...