The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Band 29

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William Roscoe Thayer
Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, 1921
 

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Seite 529 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Seite 13 - Harvard, the affirmative of the thesis, whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.
Seite 6 - A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque. Yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner. Yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.
Seite 360 - I now understand Santayana, the man. I never understood him before. But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy! I don't think I ever knew the anti-realistic view to be propounded with so impudently superior an air. It is refreshing to see a representative of moribund Latinity rise up and administer such reproof to us barbarians in the hour of our triumph.
Seite 67 - He believed that the resort to force would be in the future, as it had been in the past...
Seite 286 - ... *T*O be honest, to be kind — to earn a little *" and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim conditions, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Seite 38 - Strictly speaking, international law is an inexact expression, and it is apt to mislead if its inexactness is not kept in mind. Law implies a lawgiver, and a tribunal capable of enforcing it and coercing its transgressors. But there is no common lawgiver to sovereign states; and no tribunal has the power to bind them by decrees or coerce them if they transgress.
Seite 60 - Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, 40 The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Seite 304 - III have formed a partnership for the practice of law under the firm name of Shack elford and Burnam with offices in the Wallace Building in Richmond.
Seite 629 - Harvard, and has had years of training in three of the largest and best known hospitals of Massachusetts, and Is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society and other similar medical and scientific societies, starts a new and pleasing era, that...

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