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...would be an instructing sight to an officer of the University, especially if he should sit down and realize the danger, by attempting to do some careful reading in a book, perhaps in a foreign language and with poor and discolored paper. Now let this officer or wealthy alumnus think that a large number of men are straining their eyes in this dim light for four to six hours, six days in the week. More and more the library is becoming the work-shop of the University. Imagine for a moment the men working in the chemical and physical laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/20/1892 | See Source »

...American laborers." The Mills bill was to prevent the draw on many millions. We maintain fifteen millions as the cost of the tin experiment and this retards us in many things. From the McKinley bill we have got increased taxation. We believe in free raw material, and do not think that our great industries will perish if we have less taxation on the necessaries of life. The Democracy stands for equality, progress and protection in its highest sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Debate. | 1/15/1892 | See Source »

...mind and conscience of individuals. The work you are trying to do seems slow, and is not showy, but it is the real work after all. I wish you would tell the members of the Union of my constant thought of them. Say to them, please, that I think we are dealing with the social question in the most healthy, quiet and manly way, and that if the Union prospers in its present lines, it will have a broad influence in the world. It is very strange that you should ask me whether I could propose any change of name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Prospect Progressive Union. | 1/11/1892 | See Source »

...third class includes a great many of us, those who are both good and bad. If our hearts were unalterably fixed for good or bad we should have no need to think of our ways; but as they are not we need to take an inventory of our stock and find out just where we stand. What season so fit as the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 1/4/1892 | See Source »

...Christ's character is a one sided - one. In consequence they feel a condict between their religion and every-day life. They really long to be like the strongest men-of-the-world and to excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 12/21/1891 | See Source »