Monday, September 10, 2018

Notes on Excellence

  • A message to Gracia was published in March 1899
  • inspirational essay
  • due to popularity, reprinted as a book and pamphlet
  • sold over 40 million copies
  • translating into 37 languages
  • made into a movie, twice (1916, 1936)
  • "take a message to Garcia" became a popular slang for taking initiative (used in the military)
  • setting: Spanish-American War
  • Gracia: revolutionary seeking Cuban independence from Spain
  • Rowan: an army officer (west point, class of 1881)
  • McKinley: 25th president (1897-1901), assassinated
  • The tallest mountain in North America, Denali, we renamed Mckinley (until 2015)
  • perihelion: the point when a planet is closest to the sun, at its brightest
  • slipshod: careless, lackadaisical, remiss

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