SpeechesLittle, Brown, 1891 - 55 páginas |
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ambition ANSWER TO RESOLUTIONS Antietam army aspiration associations Bartlett believe Bench boat race bring back joy CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN civilization command commemorate common law comrades Court dead death destiny doubt duty ence England fact fate Feeling begets fell fire flower forgotten funeral march genius glory Harvard College Harvard Law School HARVARD UNIVERSITY hear heard heart honor hope human ideal imparted intellectual interest judge Justice knew knowledge Langdell lawyers learned least less lives look Massachusetts master mean Memorial Day men's ment mightier monument never number of legal OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once orator perhaps practical principles is small PROFESSION Puritan regiment reverence sacred seemed seen share our memories Sir James Stephen soldiers soul speak specialists speech spiritual Story's subtile symbol taught teach law text-books things thinker Thomas Shepard tion William Allen words YALE YALE UNIVERSITY young
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Página 9 - us at Fair Oaks, and afterwards for five days and nights in front of the enemy the only sleep that he would take was what he could snatch sitting erect in his uniform and resting his back against a hut. He fell at Gettysburg. His brother, a surgeon, who rode, as our surgeons so
Página 16 - some Wolfe, some Montcalm, some Shaw. This is that little touch of the superfluous which is necessary. Necessary as art is necessary, and knowledge which serves no mechanical end. Superfluous only as glory is superfluous, or a bit of red ribbon that a man would die to win.
Página 42 - I have said that the best part of our education is moral. It is the crowning glory of this Law School that it has kindled in many a heart an inextinguishable fire. NOTE. — The orator referred to on page 28 was James Russell Lowell; the poet was Oliver
Página 12 - back joy to their lives? I think of one whom the poor of a great city know as their benefactress and friend. I think of one who has lived not less greatly
Página 26 - education begins when what is called your education is over, — when you no longer are stringing together the pregnant thoughts, the "jewels five words long," which great men have given their lives to cut from the raw material, but have begun yourselves to work upon the raw material for results which you do not see, cannot predict, and which may be long in
Página 39 - that no teaching which a man receives from others at all approaches in importance what he does for himself, and that one who simply has been a docile pupil has got but a very little way. But I do think that in the
Página 11 - It is not of the dead alone that we think on this day. There are those still living whose sex forbade them to offer their lives, but who gave instead their happiness. Which of us has not been lifted above himself by the sight of one of those lovely, lonely women, around whom the wand of sorrow has traced its excluding circle, — set apart, even when surrounded by loving friends who would fain
Página 16 - for writing the names of its dead graduates upon its tablets is not in the mathematics, the chemistry, the political economy, which it taught them, but that in ways not to be discovered, by traditions not to be written down, it helped men of lofty natures to make good their faculties. I hope and I believe that it long will give such help to its children.
Página 44 - to us. He had that terse and polished subtilty of speech which was most familiar to the world where courtiers and men of fashion taught the litterateurs of a later age how to write. He had something of the half-hidden wit which men