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...home, 467 Broadway, at ten o'clock yesterday morning. He was very ill with pneumonia last October, and at that time was not expected to recover. During the winter he has not been well and Monday, March 21, he was attacked again by the illness which has lingered along until yesterday morning. He was born in Cambridge, March 16, 1869. His father, James Jennison, graduated from the college in the class of '47, and from 1851-60 was instructor in elocution in the University...
...think, has to be learned by trial and failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they teach. I purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have to apply for himself. When we come where specializations are necessary, on the whole the person who knows his subject best will teach it best. Get then a comprehensive grasp of the subject you would teach. Right...
...such trying circumstances, these come to our aid. Most people dread death, yet at the last moment they are generally willing to meet it. We come to a difficulty in life and at the same time we acquire the energy to overcome it. Like a stream which, when wending along, meets a seemingly impassable barrier, summons all its force and pushes its way through. As we look forward in life we fail to recognize the resources of God, the resources of the world, and our own resources. We should however trust to these and not dread what the future...
...irritation, and every call of duty that lies outide of it is an interruption and a burden. (2) In the broadest meaning of faith's adventure is the surrender of life to a hidden guidance. Faith knows whither Christ has gone and it knows the hidden way. And along that way it presses to its promised land of peace...
...about the Summer Schools, the Astronomical Observatory, the Library, the Laboratories, the Museums, Religious Exercises of the University, the Lecture-rooms and their Uses, the Athletic Buildings and Fields, and Prizes. In the Conclusion, a table of the schools and colleges from which men have entered Harvard is given along with some statistics regarding the growth of the University since...