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In a constitutional government like ours, nothing can be done but by talk. The word "talk" is not here used in the hypercritical, scornful way which is so common. Talk has, in its present use, a broad meaning. It means thought, preparation, determination, sagacity, knowledge of men and of affairs...
II.Poetry in Homely Lines.I have known people who had to go to Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in...
III.The Practical and the Ideal.But ours is a utilitarian age, and what is the use of studying the belles lettres? I would find its use in the very existence of that utilitarian tendency. The mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we...
A large audience heard Mr. Blashfield lecture last evening in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory on "The City of the Renaissance, its pictorial conditions, and its relation to ours."
Lecture. The City of Renaissance, its pictorial conditions, and its relation to ours. Mr. E. H. Blashfield. Boylston 7, 7.30 p. m.