A Commenment Address Before the [Phi Beta Kappa] Society of Vassar College, June 8, 1903: The Thing to DoVassar chapter of the [Phi Beta Kappa] society [The De Vinne Press], 1903 - 18 pages |
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... thought of a career worthy of the capacities here discovered , the training here given ; perhaps a literary , or artistic or scientific career , perhaps educational or professional , perhaps reformatory , perhaps social : but always a ...
... thought of a career worthy of the capacities here discovered , the training here given ; perhaps a literary , or artistic or scientific career , perhaps educational or professional , perhaps reformatory , perhaps social : but always a ...
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... thought already necessary . Her Wisdom will point it out as the thing to do next , her Virtue will shine in doing it . Thus the subject to which I have ventured to invite your attention , " The Thing to Do , " rises before you , attends ...
... thought already necessary . Her Wisdom will point it out as the thing to do next , her Virtue will shine in doing it . Thus the subject to which I have ventured to invite your attention , " The Thing to Do , " rises before you , attends ...
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... thought of ; and the employer gains — well , he gains a settlement for the time being , anyway , till the Walking Delegate thinks of something else . Exactly the same results may be expected when an employer , being in the wrong in a ...
... thought of ; and the employer gains — well , he gains a settlement for the time being , anyway , till the Walking Delegate thinks of something else . Exactly the same results may be expected when an employer , being in the wrong in a ...
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... thought before action , some continuity of conduct personal and public , and some refer- ence of policy to enduring principle . Outside the immediate and inestimable effect on the family , Where Edu- the conservative power of educated ...
... thought before action , some continuity of conduct personal and public , and some refer- ence of policy to enduring principle . Outside the immediate and inestimable effect on the family , Where Edu- the conservative power of educated ...
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... thought of suggesting competition . Among all the disagreeable things brought forward by the new school , the most hateful is this thought of rivalry between the sexes , or of any necessary or natural antagonism of interests . My ...
... thought of suggesting competition . Among all the disagreeable things brought forward by the new school , the most hateful is this thought of rivalry between the sexes , or of any necessary or natural antagonism of interests . My ...
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Page 23 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 11 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 24 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 9 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
Page 27 - To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such violations of the rights of the neutral party as may, first or last, leave no other option.
Page 17 - Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three. To make a new Thermopylae!
Page 19 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 12 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! ADA ! sole daughter of my house and heart ? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me ; and on high The winds lift up their voices : I depart, Whither I know not ; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Page 34 - We should then have only to include the north in our confederacy, which would be, of course, in the first 'war, and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation; and I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government.
Page 34 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.