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...This boy, at the end of the meeting, went up and laid his hand on Wesley's arm and then said, in surprise, "he is a man" Wesley turned and laid his hand on the boy's head and through the influence which had begun with his first sight of the preacher's face the boy became later one of Wesley's so-called "brown-bread preachers...
...James Martineau, the well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...took their rise during Dr. Hill's term of office. He may be looked upon almost as the father of the elective system, and the first changes towards freer choice in the course of study were made while he was president. He also furthered the modern practice of setting sight passages and original problems on examination papers...
Certainly this little book will be a revelation to Harvard men and people in general to discover how much there is to be seen almost within sight of Memorial Hall, certainly within a radius of ten miles of Cambridge, for most of Mr. Bolles' rambles have been within those limits. The chief charm of the book is, perhaps, its simplicity and its unaffectednes; and who knows but that Mr. Bolles' book may do for the surroundings of Cambridge what Scott's "Lady of the Lake" did for the picturesque lake region of Scotland...
...outset: men cannot find time to attend the rehearsals. The natural consequence was well illustrated by my own class. It is within bounds to say that half of us had never looked at the song before we were huddled together, hot and excited, to flounder through it at sight. Moreover, even were the difficulty overcome - even if every senior had learned his part and sang - there are two reasons why the result would be ineffective. In the first place, the volume of sound - in the open air with a full brass band to contend against - could never be more than...