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...misunderstood in the present as he was by his opponents in his own time. History and biography, incorrect, partial, prejudiced as they may be, are the invisible and inutile Truth compared with the illusions and delusions, the frantically swallowed calumnies and legends and lies that are the average contemporary judgment, by his adversaries, of a public man. New documents, new lights are often accessible to posterity, which ought to be able to contemplate with a calmer eye those old animosities. Why shouldn't the men before 1800 be painted, as Cromwell wished to be, with all his warts and wrinkles...
...freshmen on "What to Take in Harvard" might develop a man capable of choosing the most interesting, broadening and thoroughly satisfactory courses given in Cambridge; but, failing that, the great majority of undergraduates at the end of four years look back to an academic career full of mistakes in judgment and neglected opportunities. Sometimes a necessary History course conflicts with an English course which is not to be given the next year, and the year after that the course is limited to Freshmen and Sophomores, and so on. The sum total of it all is, that many men graduate from...
...without regard to the opinions of others do not do either the community or themselves much good. We call them fanatics or cranks, and are more inclined to censure than admire them. Such men are not necessarily superior in moral standards to others; but are simply lacking in good judgment. The difficulty with them is not that their zeal is excessive, but that their aim is defective. Their very eccentricity attracts attention, making people feel; and what is worse making the fanatics themselves feel, that they live up to their principles more than other men who are really quite...
With these men instructing you in proper principles--then, you yourself exercising your own judgment in handling transactions and solving problems as they arose in your daily work--do you get the idea? You would be acquiring experience right along with the bed rock fundamentals of the profession...
...this statement because we have noticed the tendency of student liberal clubs throughout the country (with the expception of the University organiztion, which occasionally chastises it self with a non-redical speaker) to scrap all wise conservation; implying that they imbibed it in their cradles, and having after maturer judgment found it useless, have discarded it... Teir error in rgarding conservatism as stationary (if it were there would still be party in ngald fovour fedal dues and maschuesetts legislators constructing pillories), in denying that there is progressive conservatism perpetually teaching a lession. It does not keep us from going foward...