Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people of the South. He is susceptible of as much education, development and improvement as the white, and the educated Negro is pushing the white race and slowly abolishing the race line. The Negro has always gone forward, even in the time of his bondage. The race has the instinct of thrift, and oppression only strengthened and developed that instinct. His character needs forming more than reforming. He has never fallen, because he has never had anywhere to fall from. The experience of the Negro in America has been a preparation for the redemption of his own race in Africa...
...blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...
...work becomes tenfold harder and more discouraging. If anyone thinks that the work of the men deserves his jeers, nothing is easier than that he show his superiority by coming in the field and doing the work better. We trust that those who are not gentlemen enough by instinct to avoid hurting the feelings of the men may at least control themselves for the sake of the success of the eleven...
...voices of the present God. You may choose whether you will study Greek or physics, but you must be pure, upright, honorable leaders of this land. For this you must consecrate each day of life as life begins. And the experience of the past, and the gregarious instinct of the ruling family in this world, the family of man, suggests that you make this consecration as a collegium, at the college of John Harvard-that you make it together...
...Turning Point" is a fairly good story, though one might wish that a theme that has been so well worn in the fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...