Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were ready and able to talk about the region for miles around. When, however, we were asked if we had visited Wellesley, our invariable answer was "No;" but we always added that we had friends there, and had been invited out, but had never cared to go. We then, thought this was a wise answer, but now we see how foolish it must have seemed to those who heard it. We now seriously assert that no man's education is complete without his having visited Wellesley at least once, and if he once goes there, he cannot help going again...
...went through the physical laboratories, the natural history museum, and the trunk-rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much...
...asked to give the students here a series of lectures that should treat of the practical side of journalism, and present in clear form the problems that must be met and solved by those who undertake it. There is no other profession in which such active, accurate thought, so body a command of resources, and so clear a method of exposition are needed. The faculty of late have been devoting their valuable time to the obstruction of athletics: would they mind considering a subject that is of vital importance to the proper education of a class of men hither...
...suffer for them, like Cromwell or Sir John Eliot. He is the impersonation of the noble side of Puritanism; he lacks only its religious bigotry. He is the true hero of the poem even in Milton's mind, shocked as the poet would have been at such a thought. He carries our sympathy with him, and we wish for his success even though he be the very Devil himself...
...inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them. Such conduct as has proved useful in the past, cannot but be thought wise for the future. In so far, therefore, as our notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does not discourage us in working out our purposes. The case is different, however...