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...constitute our fuel for thought, but the product of our thinking capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels...
...Mexican border last summer, will be given a reception by the Harvard Club of Boston in Harvard Hall next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Many members of the Club will be present and an enjoyable evening is planned. Refreshments will be served and several speakers will be heard. It is expected that, among others, the higher military officers of the militia and the regular army will speak...
...game has left the Harvard stands weak and silent, and robbed the team of its power. This must not be the case on Saturday. We must show an indomitable spirit, the spirit that can turn a possible defeat into a victory. The man whose knocking knees are heard above his weak and faltering cheers has no place in the Harvard stands, and is unworthy of a Harvard victory. If the breaks of the game go against us, the team has the greater need of whole-hearted, enthusiastic support...
...latter's exhibition in the gallery of the Copley Society on Clarendon street, I heard strange things. A pacifist and an intellectual of distinction kept insisting that every canvas was wholly "theatrical," using the word in the most disparaging sense. Now it is not to be doubted that austerity in America is a quality rare enough to appear to be "ex machina." But seeing a miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their...
...almost forgotten the strangest thing I heard at the exhibition. A lady complained that all the types were alike: There was no variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place...