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...reckoned in the first rank, either of poets or philosophers, whereas the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced. His poetry is often crude and deficient in form, but in poetic thought few men can exceed him. The test, or one of the tests, of originality is suggestiveness. And it is originality in any department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover we Americans ought not to like to see Emerson's intellectual proportions measured by a British...
...respect of all who had dealings with him. However disagreeable the office of dean may have seemed to some at times, no one ever found fault with the occupant of the position, To hold such a position in a manner satisfactory to both faculty and students, is the hardest test to which a man's judgment and popularity...
...insist that Dr. Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that is plausible in this...
...democrat." "He had every quality that gives distinction among men. He was of towering height, of great muscular power, stately and graceful in shape and movement; in his advancing years, of an aspect most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant's anger by advising his people not to comply with that order; for which he was arrested...
...between different teachers, and they swear in verbamagistra; this gives a happy self-satisfaction and freedom from doubts. If the teacher has been well chosen, this is sufficient in ordinary cases, in which the pupil does what he has seen his teacher do. It is only unusual cases that test how much actual insight and judgment the pupil has acquired. The French people are moreover gifted, vivacious, and ambitious, and this corrects many defects in their system of teaching...