Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peabody always thought and spoke of Harvard as a body of men, young and old, mature and immature working for a common end. As he looked at it, we had made our astronomical discoveries, we had taken our photographs at the station in Peru, we had made our touchdown in the football game. The success of one was the success and the joy of all. This feeling he retained even when his work took him to another state and there was probably no day in which his mind did not turn at least a dozen times to the college...
There was another feature in Saturday's meeting which, now that we have had it, we wonder has not been thought of before, namely the playing of the Banjo and Mandolin clubs. This was certainly a pleasant way of filling in the gaps, between the events a bore which has to be endured. We trust that it is the beginning of a permanent custom. In every way the meeting was a pleasant contrast to that of a week ago and other managements may profit well by this year's experience...
...reputation as thinker and writer. He was through out his life-time a prolific contributor to the magazines, and a frequent author of works upon religious topics. His writings combine the clear, vigorous, rich and suggestive style with the power of unprejudiced, critical, mature, and even sublime thought...
That more than two hundred of his addresses have merited publication is evidence of how fertile was his mind and how ready its adaptation to every phrase of life. No utterance of his was ever barren in thought or rough in form...
...tremendous activity and indefatigable research, but his great stores of mental lore were no mere useless acquisition. All the powers and the resources of his mind were held by him as a sacred trust to aid his spiritual thought and to substantiate before men the result of his thought...