Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this tedious mediocrity which has amazed me year after year. In spelling, punctuation, and grammar, some of the essays are a little worse than the mass, and some a great deal better; but in other respects there is dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read...
...When thought is speech, and speech is truth...
...application to the work done in our college. It is an objection to a possible abuse of the elective system and not to the system itself. As students realize more and more fully the true meaning of a free choice of studies, and give more and more thought to their selections, the evils resulting from an inconsistent combination will grow less and less. A study of the records of the college for the last few years will convince any candid reader that this thoughtless union of irrationally connected subjects is fast becoming a very unimportant exception to the general rule...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In your editorial yesterday morning, you spoke of the coming exhibition of the Photographic Society as if you thought it was to be an exhibition of prints, while in fact it is to consist solely of lantern slides (stereopticon). These slides are not even the work of the Harvard society, but of a member of the Philadelphia society, who has lent them to us that we may compare our results with those of the most successful amateurs in various parts of the country...
...agitation. The author has not sufficiently noticed this period of the revolt, and as a result, the book somewhat unnaturally falls into two parts,-preparation for the revolt, and the revolt itself. The treatment for the preparation of the revolt is a masterly effort, and is thoroughly exhaustive. Great thought has been bestowed upon an exact statement of the causes which have unsettled the body politique of Russia, and the natural effect of these causes upon the Russian mind. The attention given to apolism and mysticism brings into prominence two comparatively new phases of the question. But the latter half...