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It is the question of whether , in the evolution of this planet , commercialism will
not mean just that , so long as it is backed by the national will . There is national
militant Christianity for a curious parallel . But is this sort of national will the real
will ...
It is the question of whether , in the evolution of this planet , commercialism will
not mean just that , so long as it is backed by the national will . There is national
militant Christianity for a curious parallel . But is this sort of national will the real
will ...
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In the light of President Hyde ' s brief characterization of Oxford ( Chapter XI ) ,
and of Cardinal Newman ' s description of what sort of outlook on life a university
ought to cultivate ( Chapter XII , Section V ) , and of Stevenson ' s “ Apology for ...
In the light of President Hyde ' s brief characterization of Oxford ( Chapter XI ) ,
and of Cardinal Newman ' s description of what sort of outlook on life a university
ought to cultivate ( Chapter XII , Section V ) , and of Stevenson ' s “ Apology for ...
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Correctness of this sort is like wearing a necktie , a condition of entrance into
good society , but not an admission ticket . ” We are never done with
conventionalities , with attention to the structure of paragraphs , proper guides to
the drift of ...
Correctness of this sort is like wearing a necktie , a condition of entrance into
good society , but not an admission ticket . ” We are never done with
conventionalities , with attention to the structure of paragraphs , proper guides to
the drift of ...
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Even the freshman in his green cap , as one supposed to know his place and
take life as it comes , should wish to be more truly conscious of his work than that
sort of talk implies . I mean that he should be more keenly alive to the fact that
even ...
Even the freshman in his green cap , as one supposed to know his place and
take life as it comes , should wish to be more truly conscious of his work than that
sort of talk implies . I mean that he should be more keenly alive to the fact that
even ...
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What sort of force is it that forges most of these links ? That is obviously the
important matter . If you can determine that , you will have a point of view about
the whole subject . So you begin to compare the links for similarities : Mary ' s
early ...
What sort of force is it that forges most of these links ? That is obviously the
important matter . If you can determine that , you will have a point of view about
the whole subject . So you begin to compare the links for similarities : Mary ' s
early ...
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Page 183 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 186 - It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of subjects; of implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaint1 Philologists, Salmasius at the University of Leyden (died 1653), Burmann at Utrecht (Hied 1742).
Page 273 - 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 259 - 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 283 - ... 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 295 - The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.
Page 275 - Aspects of Life. Suffice it to say this: if a lad does not learn in the streets, it is because he has no faculty of learning. Nor is the truant always in the streets, for if he prefers, he may go out by the gardened suburbs into the country. He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones. A bird will sing in the thicket. And there he may fall into a vein of kindly thought, and see things in a new perspective.
Page 192 - ... a set of examiners with no opinions which they dare profess, and with no common principles, who are teaching or questioning a set of youths who do not know them, and do not know each other, On a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by no wide philosophy, three times a week, or three times a year, or once in three years, in chill lecture-rooms or on a pompous anniversary. 10. Nay, self-education in any shape, in the most restricted sense, is preferable to a system of teaching...
Page 193 - ... those earnest but ill-used persons, who are forced to load their minds with a score of subjects against an examination, who have too much on their hands to indulge themselves in thinking or investigation...
Page 273 - It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical ; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks ; literary persons despise the unlettered ; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none. But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against...
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| Title | College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of Character and Intellect |
| Editor | Richard Ashley Rice |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's sons, 1915 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 May 2006 |
| Length | 374 pages |
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