Word: unseen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that victories of both ordinary and unusual excellence should not be recorded by the simple but valuable expedient of preserving the trophies of the field in a conspicuous place. That the trophies have in all cases been claimed is scarcely to be questioned, but that they should lie about unseen and disregarded mars to no inconsiderable extent the success of winning teams. Traditions can be maintained only with much effort and vigilance; they can easily become mere breaths of the past and mean nothing to those of us who belong to the present generation. Nor are traditions always worthy...
...feel called upon to go for subjects so far outside their own experiences. We need more work of the quality of "The Medomac" and the editorials of this number of the Monthly. It will be a great day for Harvard journalism when the literary undergraduate stops sighing after the unseen...
...them. Let him find satisfaction in good work and be content to say with the old philosopher of Weissnich: Two writings of mine, not indeed known as mine (for what am I), have fallen, perhaps not altogether void, into the mighty seed-field of Opinion; fruits of my unseen sowing gratifyingly meet me here and there. I thank the Heavens that I have now found my calling; Wherein, with or without perceptible result, I am minded diligently to persevere...
...almost constituted a new alphabet, yet which was consisitently a law unto itself and as legible as other current script when its letters were once learned; and in his vivid perception of the rich variety of the world about him, in which like an impressionist he saw bright colors unseen by duller eyes. He was the friend and advocate of the students in his charge rather than a prosecuting officer of the University, and it was always more his wish to get young fellows out of scrapes than to punish them for getting in. He was the inventor and developer...
...record of the victory of the seventh sense. Besides the ordinary five senses, and common sense, which should be added to these, there is another, the possession of which distinguishes man from beast--the power to look ahead and comprehend the invisible. This keen perception of the unseen, or, as it sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been impotent. Friendship and love, which necessitate a belief...