College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of Character and IntellectRichard Ashley Rice C. Scribner's sons, 1915 - 374 pages |
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... spirit ? What is the difference between an idol and a by - product of a college education ? What ideals are per- haps idols in disguise ? What is there to say in defense of some of the idols ? Can an idol be improved into an ideal ? The ...
... spirit ? What is the difference between an idol and a by - product of a college education ? What ideals are per- haps idols in disguise ? What is there to say in defense of some of the idols ? Can an idol be improved into an ideal ? The ...
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... spirit of our age in its two dominant phases - strenuous labor and ardent dreaming . They both represent the reaction from what Stevenson calls " cowardly and pru- dential proverbs . " They emphasize the importance of progress at all ...
... spirit of our age in its two dominant phases - strenuous labor and ardent dreaming . They both represent the reaction from what Stevenson calls " cowardly and pru- dential proverbs . " They emphasize the importance of progress at all ...
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... spirit of the original . " The element which we have in mind here is obviously not just lucidity . It is another part of a writer's meaning that appears to be best described by the word tone , because this term includes the idea of ...
... spirit of the original . " The element which we have in mind here is obviously not just lucidity . It is another part of a writer's meaning that appears to be best described by the word tone , because this term includes the idea of ...
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... spirit in the colleges is perhaps justifiable . I have not come to this trust in the college system with- out experience . I have also sounded the undergraduates as to whether they would find use for a greater liberty . I found that the ...
... spirit in the colleges is perhaps justifiable . I have not come to this trust in the college system with- out experience . I have also sounded the undergraduates as to whether they would find use for a greater liberty . I found that the ...
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... spirit of the university life . Here again the compact communi- ties within those college walls - so terrible to Americans— make possible a freedom of interplay of all social forces unknown at Harvard or Yale . The real Union of Oxford ...
... spirit of the university life . Here again the compact communi- ties within those college walls - so terrible to Americans— make possible a freedom of interplay of all social forces unknown at Harvard or Yale . The real Union of Oxford ...
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Page 179 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 290 - But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Page 174 - ... reception into the mind of a number of ideas hitherto unknown to it, but in the mind's energetic and simultaneous action upon and towards and among those new ideas, which are rushing in upon it. It is the action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning the matter of our acquirements ; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our own, or, to use a familiar word, it is a digestion of what we receive, into the substance of our previous state of thought ; and without this...
Page 186 - ... if I must determine which of the two courses was the more successful in training, moulding, enlarging the mind, which sent out men the more fitted for their secular duties, which produced better public men, men of the world, men whose names would descend to posterity, I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that university which did nothing over that which exacted of its members an acquaintance with every science under the sun . . . How is this to be explained?
Page 174 - ... of them. We feel our minds to be growing and expanding then, when we not only learn, but refer what we learn to what we know already. It is not the mere addition to our knowledge that is the illumination; but the locomotion, the movement onward, of that mental centre to which both what I we know and what we are learning, the accumulating mass ! of our acquirements, gravitates. And therefore a truly great intellect...
Page 267 - goes for" them. And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. Alexander is touched in a very delicate place by the disregard of Diogenes. Where was the glory of having taken Rome for these tumultuous barbarians, who poured into the Senate house, and found the Fathers sitting silent and unmoved by their success?
Page 253 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Page 277 - And yet you see merchants who go and labour themselves into a great fortune and thence into the bankruptcy court; scribblers who keep scribbling at little articles until their temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid; and fine young men who work themselves into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies,...
Page 277 - ... into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny ? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless youth, for all they know, may be chimerical or hurtful; the glory and riches they expect may never come,...
Page 76 - What is especially taught in the colleges has long been known by the name of the "humanities," and these are often identified with Greek and Latin. But it is only as literatures, not as languages, that Greek and Latin have any general...