Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stereopticon views, over 200 in number, admirably illustrated the scenes of Dr. Grenfell's work. Rugged mountains, lofty cliffs, vast fields of ice and towering icebergs, bore out Dr. Grenfell's statement that the scenery was fully as beautiful with its sunsets and long fjords as the northern coast of Norway...
...athletics, and incidentally, at most, for education. True, there is nothing spectacular in scholarship; but nothing depends more upon individual effort. Athletics ought not to be denounced; athletics are a good thing if indulged in by everybody, and they develop courage; but there is no question of the vast superiority of intellectual work...
...preserve American nationality and American free institutions. They freed the negro slave. His complete emancipation, however, the freedom of his mind and soul as well as his body can be secured only through education. It is the opportunity and the privilege of the nation to grant him this. The vast number of illiterate negroes in the South proves that the nation is not doing this adequately...
...sharp contrast with the mountains of Colorado are her vast prairies and farms. The observation of the traveller is directed to the unlimited possibilities of these great areas, harvested by the most scientific mechanical appliances...
...written on that difficult subject--yet lays down this manly conclusion, coming from a Kentuckian (p. 149) "A fair assessment of the situation leads to the conviction that morally he (the negro) is hopeful material for use in our society." If as some seem to think this whole vast question needs to be settled over again, it is a comfort to think that we have the strong testimony of Professor Shaler on the side of justice. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON...