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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... youth and of the 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 ...
... youth and of the 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 ...
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... YOUTH . - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON STEVENSON 66 99 TIMES • WELLS 216 233 · 257 272 284 XX . THINKING FOR YOURSELF . THE LONDON XXI . THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE . - H . G. • · XXII . THE GREAT ANALYSIS . - ANONYMOUS 299 302 • · 332 XXIII ...
... YOUTH . - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON STEVENSON 66 99 TIMES • WELLS 216 233 · 257 272 284 XX . THINKING FOR YOURSELF . THE LONDON XXI . THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE . - H . G. • · XXII . THE GREAT ANALYSIS . - ANONYMOUS 299 302 • · 332 XXIII ...
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... youth made on the hour , with whatever degree of technical skill , which does not lack , paradoxically , the vital energy that inspired it , which does not shortly appear both to youth and to time thin and unsatisfying . But this aspect ...
... youth made on the hour , with whatever degree of technical skill , which does not lack , paradoxically , the vital energy that inspired it , which does not shortly appear both to youth and to time thin and unsatisfying . But this aspect ...
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... youth , what the mind chiefly lacks is a multi- plicity of contacts . Liberal education , or the art of growing up , may be said to be the process of bringing the various faculties of the mind closer and closer together , of sup- plying ...
... youth , what the mind chiefly lacks is a multi- plicity of contacts . Liberal education , or the art of growing up , may be said to be the process of bringing the various faculties of the mind closer and closer together , of sup- plying ...
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... youth , why should we not be able to give a true and vivid account of it ? Yet something like the following is what we are usually capable of : It was a piping hot August afternoon , and a great many people had assembled at the fair ...
... youth , why should we not be able to give a true and vivid account of it ? Yet something like the following is what we are usually capable of : It was a piping hot August afternoon , and a great many people had assembled at the fair ...
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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...