Revisiting the Earth
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REVISITING THE EARTH
Author of "The Immortal Seven," "The Scholar's Larger Life," "The Worst Boys in Town," "Favorites of History," "The Century's Capstone," "Memory Comforting Sorrow," "A Crowning Achievement," etc.
RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS BOSTON
Copyright, 1920, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
Made in the United States of America
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
THE LITTLE SEMINARY OF LETTERS
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
REVISITING THE EARTH
CHAPTER I
REVISITING THE EARTH
To Open Books that are Sealed
Let Me Drop a Hint Here Like a Seed
Pausing for a Fore-taste
Waymarks of the Journey
The Mind's Re-invigoration
The Re-creation of the World
Blessing in the Guise of an Excursion
CHAPTER II
THE PICTURE LAND OF THE HEART
The Vine Must Have the Wall
"The Man Returned who Left these Haunts a Boy"
"I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN"
The Gate to Life
Footprints on the Sands of Time
Things Sweet to Remember
THE LITTLE SANCTUARY
CHAPTER III
THE DEAREST SPOT ON EARTH TO ME
The Glory of Life in its First Spring
The Rule of the Shekel
The Last Wish of Ambitious Minds
Strikes a Chord Unconsciously
Old Home Looks Young Again
The Odor of Apple Blossoms
CHAPTER IV
THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE
Dolling Up
Fitted for a Day Sure to Come
Flights of Oratory
Choosing the Front Subject
Educating Themselves
A New Impetus
The Onward Upward Course
CHAPTER V
SEEN THROUGH THE LONG VISTA OF DEPARTED YEARS
What is Your Problem
On the Road to Learning
The By-product of Development
Best When Most Catching
The Love of Conquest
The Impulse From Incentive and Reward
The Fascination of Matching Abilities and Efforts
The Tug of War
CHAPTER VI
WHERE WE PLAYED MUMBLE-THE-PEG
Developing a Real and Fixed Deformity
An Increased Reverence for the Human Organization
The Open-door Policy
Our Knives Confiscated by Teachers
Happy Hours by Living Streams
Healing in the Pool
And That Reminds Me
One of Life's Schools
Loafing and Laboring
Foibles of the Famous
CHAPTER VII
THE SCENE OF THE SCHOOL FIGHTS
Precipitating a Fracas
Sectional and Factional Fights
Suffering From Personal Collision
Birch, Beech, and Willow Were the Branches Taken
America's Unhappy Hour
Putting on the Character with the Coats of Gentlemen
New Facings to Old Opinions
Fair to Illustrate by the Best Examples
CHAPTER VIII
TOUCHING A LONG SLUMBERING CHORD
The Past at Least is Secure
Where a Critical Struggle was Beginning
Rising Young Men
Tendency to Exaggerate Rather than to Daguerreotype
The Practice Has Boomerang Implications
Things with a Difference
The Changing World
PARADISE LOST—BEFORE THE SALEM FIRE]
PARADISE REGAINED—AFTER THE CONFLAGRATION
The Unexpected Happens
The Past Looks Like a Dream
Achilles Pondered in His Tent
CHAPTER IX
WHAT HAD BECOME OF THE OLD ECCENTRICITIES
Forgetting all Except One Truth
Personalities of Rarest Types
Poet of the One-Hoss Shay Said, "No Extra Charge"
Links with the Past
Boys Did Not Know What to Make of Them
Heroes and Fine Old Gentlemen
Sounds a Characteristic Note
Some Incongruities of Character
CHAPTER X
TO SEE AND FEEL THE PAST
People Looked, People Wondered, People Praised
Making Hay While the Sun Shines
The Death of the Mortgage
A Heaven-sent Device
They Were a Family Again
How Much Like Folks
Absence of the Big Stick
An Outlaw in the Herd
Testing Mighty Principles by Small Experiments
The Home of the Angels
New Forms of Matter, New Crystallizations
A Lesson that Will Last a Lifetime
CHAPTER XI
A RETURN TO ONE'S HOLY LAND
Casting a Reflection Means Nothing Bad
The Glory of Supremacy
Silent Sentinels of the Silent Years
Sunny Silent Homes
Heart Histories Laid Open
A Legacy of Pleasant Memories
The World Teaches an Attentive Mind
Where New Chapters Begin
Nothing Insignificant, Nothing
Halcyon Days
There's a Reason
CHAPTER XII
LOOKING UP SONS OF WELL-REMEMBERED MOTHERS
Consecrated Their Talents to Elevation of Humanity
A Reproof to Defamers of Human Nature
One an Illustration of Many
The Lure of the Store
He Lived With His Mother's Spirit
THE MEETING PLACE OF "THE SENATE"
Astonished as if He Had Seen a Vision
Retrospect is Cheering
No Love Like Mother Love
"Turning the Bend in the Road"
Presence of Our Celestial Helpers
Out of Evil Cometh Good
Pushed by Unseen Hands
CHAPTER XIII
THINGS THAT HAD PASSED AWAY "STILL LIVE"
Books Written by Ourselves
A Hard Road to Travel
Teaching and Learning
Transported Back to the Past
A Boy a "Feeble Beginning of a Mighty End"
Human Nature Unchanged
The Coronation of Labor
Not Criticism, Just Description
To Go to the Top, First Go to the Bottom
The Renewal of the Face of the World
Cables Binding to Safe Moorings
A Fashion that is Wearing Away
Time Can Obliterate as Well as Create
A Table of Priorities
A SEAT OF LEARNING FULL OF MEMORIES
Tremendous Trifles
Critical Periods
CHAPTER XIV
WHERE A VISITANT SEES MORE THAN A RESIDENT
A Sort of Homesickness
Recollections of Other Years
Through Tears of Memory
Unterrified Visitors
When the World was Young
You Can't Paint the Sunrise
Another Relic of the Past
"A Flood of Thoughts Comes O'er Me"
THE GROUNDS OF THE BELOVED COLLEGE
Stepping Into the Past
The College Empire
Just How it Feels
Just Plain Friends
Rekindled Fires
Fortune Keeps Her Own Secrets
Some Social Features
"Fixing Up"
He Had no Pet Virtue
A Disposition to Build Tabernacles
CHAPTER XV
WHERE I MET MYSELF
The Old and New
Words Pale and Inadequate
"Far Away and Long Ago"
Stepping Stones in Recent History
THE GREATEST PLEASURE GIVEN TO MAN
Worthy of Unstinted Praise
Time Tries All Things
The World a Wheel
Pigs is Pigs
CHAPTER XVI
RETRACING THE OLD PATHS
The Land We Love
Lines Cast in Pleasant Places
Andover is Different
Where Every Prospect Pleases
A World of Tender Memories
Andover's Crowning Glory
A Man of Noble Parts
A Soul Melted Into a Voice
CHAPTER XVII
GOING BACK TO MY PADAN-ARAM
First View of Intimate Friends
Cupid's Marksmanship
Remember Lot's Wife
The Supply is Not Exhausted
Heart Histories
Women Not Gone to the Dogs
Shall the Union Survive
Lights in Their Dwellings
CHAPTER XVIII
A NEW KNOCK AT AN OLD DOOR
Lost Facts of Local History
Publicity is Light
Cupid All Smiling
The Royal Families
A Social Revolution
The Glory of the Commonplace
The Missing Link
Money in all Pockets
The Wine of Sweet Remembrance
Ancientness is Falling Off
"Stray Historical Facts Corralled"
The By-products of Development
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