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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conscience of men are stronger motives of action, and lead to greater results than any mere intellectual convictions. The lever of the great English Rebellion was the Conscience of England, and though Lord Bacon has said that all revolutions begin in the belly, this is in no wise true of such as bring about enduring political changes. So during our own Revolution, though the quarrel certainly began about a point of law, yet the enthusiasm which carried it through disaster and privation to success was kindled and kept alive by the few pregnant abstractions into which the genius of Jefferson...
...told that perfection of form can be learned only of the Greeks, and it is certainly true that many among them attained to, or developed out of some hereditary germ of aptitude, a sense of proportion and of the helpful relation of parts to the whole organism which other races mostly grope after in vain. Spenser, in the enthusiasm of his new Platonism, tells us that "Soul is form,and doth the body make," and no doubt this is true of the highest artistic genius. Form without soul, the most obsequious observance of the unities, the most perfect a priori...
What has been said about the just mode to judge the nine's work, holds equally true of the crew. Their work cannot be judged in detail, but all know that Captain Davis has never weakened in his effort to produce a creditable crew, and that the many men who have rowed have been eager to do their best. The University is appreciative of the severe work that is being done at New London, and keenly hopes that it may end in victory...
...hard work from skilled men, but we are not all needed to become experts in sociology. But every man can do something by bringing a broad Christian spirit into his daily work. Every office, however humble or mechanical, can be dignified and even glorified by a man with a true conception of his duty to himself and to the community. Of such a spirit we have here had a noble example in Frank Bolles who, by his loving interest in the College and in the students, brought an office which had been nothing more than a clerkship...
...convinced ourselves and we believe that almost all men in the college are convinced that seminars hinder the right use of a college course, and that men who pass examinations by their aid do not do the work for which the Faculty gives degrees. While it is perfectly true that seminars might be rightly used, and may perhaps be so used by one man in twenty, the fact remains that to most men they stand as a last resort in case their regular work is neglected. That the existence of this last resort tends to the neglect of regular work...