"A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket-- The sea was still breaking violently and night Had steamed into our North Atl…"

"He was formal in a rather awkward New England sense. His voice was soft and slow as he read the students' poems. At f…"

"I loved his openness to receive influences. He was not a poet who said, "I'm an American poet, I'm going to be peculi…"

"If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can th…"

"If you would only stop rating a child's ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our y…"

"Though it was long thought that woman's brain was minor in comparison with man's, woman, as a class, now-a-day shows …"

"Oh, what a lot of politically blind city and town officials I could point out within a day's auto trip from Branton H…"

"In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. You all know what honor you pay to your fla…"

"It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us…"

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