Word: evening
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...first is: "Will it benefit the class if we decide to wear caps and gowns?" I believe it will, even though all Seniors do not wear them. As has often been pointed out before, in a large class men do not have an opportunity to know their classmates. If caps and gowns are worn, the Seniors are distinguished from the men of the other classes. Last year it was affirmed that the whole plan would fail, if all the members of the class did not wear the caps and gowns. I say that the plan will be successful, if only...
...over five hundred and forty men whom the office is willing to rank as Seniors, but very few of the men in the class are acquainted with over one hundred and fifty of these. Let any Senior take the list of voters and count up the men he knows even by sight and he will be surprised at the smallness of his total. This is a state of things which should not exist and which we can easily remedy. If all the Seniors wore caps and gowns we would at least know each other by sight, and we would...
...sudden collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was roughly coincident with the first appearance of iron in common use on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world...
...inside of the Southern civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed the Southerners themselves while they were fighting these as well as the enemies from without. Among the Southern people themselves there was a growing discontent but they did not even begin to question the wisdom or rightness of their life because the abolitionists attacked them from without. The leading men of the lower South displayed a constantly heightened pride and a more and more stubborn unwillingness to concede anything whatever to the outside opponents of their system. But no success attended...
Finally comes the preacher. The power of the pulpit and the preacher has not passed and even preachers of moderate ability can do endless good to their fellow men and to their country. If one has anything worth while to say, one will always find people ready to listen...