Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expressed in ordinary language. In other words we have slowly acquired a dialect, comparable to that of Romany, which is peculiar to Harvard and naturally adapted to express minor Harvard ideas. To attempt to eradicate this system of language would be to attempt to curtail our expression of thought, for many of the terms have acquired a significance which it would be vain to seek in any words distinctively more elegant. The use of these cant terms clings to us more or less through life and marks us as men of Harvard. The man of '79 is as easily recognized...
...correspondents and all students whom he represents judge the conference harshly, only when they have positive knowledge on which to base their judgement. Let maturity of thought and investigation of facts have their wholesome effect on comments intended for publication. Wait, give the conference a chance, and it may show that it deserves something besides hasty censure...
...life. These resolutions will go before the faculty, and will serve to bring an evil to their notice, in a manner in which it has never before been presented, from the side of student conviction. The marking system is one that must be remedied by more careful and mature thought, than that of the student members of the conference. Students can not expect to originate a plan for marking that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in the atmosphere of marks, and have made special study of methods of teaching and of college discipline. While this...
...really poetic conception, it is well for him to try to express himself in metre. But he should be chary about giving such a production to the public; for few are true poets, and he may not be of the few. College students more often fail through feebleness of thought rather than of expression. Their sentiments frequently turn out to be flat, and puny copies of what has been much better said. Yet, if we have not the highest forms of inspiration, we can make light and graceful verse from the light and graceful fancies which belong to our time...
...fact is that the pessimist simply believes that more misery than happiness exists in the world. The optimist holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober and honest thought is pessimistic, as it often is, he would do wrong to write optimistically. Both argue that you must shape your course according to the weightiest facts of existence; one holds that misery is the great fact of life; the other, that happiness is. Each is in duty bound steadfastly...