Word: thinker
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Well said, thou thinker bold and free...
Leaving, however, the errors and misapprehensions of this thinker as regards the former article, let us consider such of his own as may lay claim to originality...
...college is not that of a machine-shop; it does not fit a man directly for active life, but for broad and right modes of thought. To specialize or differentiate is the object of a post-graduate course, or a professional school. Modern induction requires the eye of the thinker to have a broad range, - college teaches us to see widely; then, properly, should begin that special investigation which is to turn our inert comparison and Fakir-like contemplation into the enthusiastic pursuit of that knowledge for which our collegiate course has shown us best fitted, - the Professional Schools teach...
...amusement into Boston or elsewhere. We will take a look into some of the others. Here, in Matthews, is a man with one elbow resting on the table, the hand supporting his forehead, while a book is outspread before his half-closed eyes. He must be a deep thinker, he is so quiet. Across the hall we find a man stretched on his back on the lounge, reading Middlemarch. In Holworthy is a party engaged in a "square game of draw poker," following the example of our Minister to England. In the fifth story of Thayer we find...
...often makes itself felt in the plainest and homeliest terms, speaking from the heart to the heart." The ready speaker who indulges in rhetorical displays produces as much effect as fire-works, which they so much resemble, receiving attention and admiration but for a moment. The slow, careful, consistent thinker, who proceeds in a methodical way to prove his case, is sure to succeed far better. But it is by no means necessary for a lawyer to ever appear in court to attain success, and some who do attain it, and that in the highest degree, are never known...