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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