Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when in college. It is inconceivable that the Board of Overseers should retain their narrow ideas upon the subject after reading Mr. Dana's letter or Mr. Wendell's reported conversation. These gentlemeu have been out of college for some years, and therefore look upon the matter in a calmer, more impartial way than could be expected among the students. These opinions should be respected by the Overseers, especially as they go far towards disproving many of the assumptions made in the report. The majority of the younger Alumni probably agree with Mr. Dana and Mr. Wendell-at least these...
President Porter, of Yale says that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such...