Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this branch of athletics, Harvard has in the past been unexcelled, and we believe would be so now if all the men who are conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those...
...best of out door sports, but one of the safest.' As regards the tendency to degenerate into personal combat, 'the writer's observation has led him to believe that, in nine cases out of ten, a general tendency to indulge in striking with the fist is the result of conscious inferiority.' Any one who has watched the game will fully coincide with this statement and will perfectly agree to the validity of the remark that, 'the natural development of the game into team-playing is itself a correction to any tendency to blows. College and popular reputation compels every good...
...philosophy of history. Many believe that history is all in the books. In this they are much mistaken-as much as they would be if they should refer natural science and language to books. If one should learn history he must go the original sources. There are the conscious and the unconscious sources. The primitive American knew nothing of his relations to the past and the future, but by his acts he unwittingly has given us facts of his existence, as is shown by the relics to be found everywhere on this continent. We can gain but little knowledge...
...Conscious sources are very difficult. Why should men write that the future may read? The only solution is the literary impulse which has always existed with greater or less power. In ancient and mediaeval times notices of sacred days contained appendices of the important events which had occurred since the last notifications. Unfortunately, most of the annalists of the middle ages were unintelligent. Most of the original sources of the history of this era have now been printed, through the energy of the modern German scholars. This brings up the invention of printing, the great value of which...
...value of historical sources must be viewed through the motives of the writers. A letter written for publication is quite different from one of a private nature. This question, fortunately, is not often a difficult one. There remains the question of the comparative value of an unconscious and a conscious record. The former is a record, pure and simple the latter is apt to be influenced by personal considerations. It cannot, therefore, be so untrustworthy...