Educational Pamphlets 44: University Addresses].1893 |
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... century the institution has sent out many of the strong- est men which the state possesses . Our graduates are found en- gaged in every worthy pursuit . " By their achievements they are commending their dear mother , not only for the ...
... century the institution has sent out many of the strong- est men which the state possesses . Our graduates are found en- gaged in every worthy pursuit . " By their achievements they are commending their dear mother , not only for the ...
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... think , beyond all comparison the best collection in America , both as to numbers and as to quality of the books of the 15th century ; and I gravely doubt if it has any rival this side of the Atlantic for its literature of the 16th 6.
... think , beyond all comparison the best collection in America , both as to numbers and as to quality of the books of the 15th century ; and I gravely doubt if it has any rival this side of the Atlantic for its literature of the 16th 6.
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University Addresses]. side of the Atlantic for its literature of the 16th century . Rare books of which I had never ... centuries of the Renaissance and the Reformation , there is no place in America - I am not sure if any in Europe to ...
University Addresses]. side of the Atlantic for its literature of the 16th century . Rare books of which I had never ... centuries of the Renaissance and the Reformation , there is no place in America - I am not sure if any in Europe to ...
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... centuries it has been assumed that the study of the dead languages , Latin and Greek , and of the higher mathematics , is the labor which gives the best results , the exercise which turns a plowboy into an orator , or a statesman , or a ...
... centuries it has been assumed that the study of the dead languages , Latin and Greek , and of the higher mathematics , is the labor which gives the best results , the exercise which turns a plowboy into an orator , or a statesman , or a ...
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... centuries the book so long sealed has been opened , and there have been added Dante , and Milton , and Shakespere , and Goethe , and Schiller , and such thinkers as Bacon and Newton , and such students as Cuvier , and Humboldt , and ...
... centuries the book so long sealed has been opened , and there have been added Dante , and Milton , and Shakespere , and Goethe , and Schiller , and such thinkers as Bacon and Newton , and such students as Cuvier , and Humboldt , and ...
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Page 22 - God of our fathers, known of old — Lord of our far-flung battle line — Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Page 22 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 6 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, • Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold; Where on the JEgean shore a city stands, Built nobly; pure the air, and light the soil; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 36 - God, it is now proving itself— a stumbling-block to all those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should reappear in this fair land and commence their vocation, they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.
Page 38 - But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
Page 4 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Page 3 - KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned, Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more.
Page 15 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord...
Page 14 - ... *New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; * they must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of truth; lo, before us gleam her campfires! We ourselves must Pilgrims be, launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, nor attempt the future's portal with the past's blood-rusted key.