 | 1925 - 412 pages
...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,...an acquaintance with every science under the sun. "How is this to be explained? I suppose as follows: when a multitude, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic,... | |
 | Harold Frank Graves, Carle Brooks Spotts - 1927 - 320 pages
...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,...an acquaintance with every science under the sun. "How is this to be explained? I suppose as follows : when a multitude, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic,... | |
 | Joseph Morris Bachelor, Ralph Ledyard Henry - 1928 - 426 pages
...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,...an acquaintance with every science under the sun. "How is this to be explained? I suppose as follows : when a multitude, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1928 - 534 pages
...years since, if I were asked which of these two methods was the better discipline of the intellect, I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that...an acquaintance with every science under the sun." It is easy to see what are the social advantages of the college system. The question, however, with... | |
 | Walter Robinson Smith - 1928 - 804 pages
...which sent out men 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 preference to that university which did nothing, over that which exacted of its members an acquaintance... | |
 | 1926 - 344 pages
...merely brought a number of young men together for three or four years and then sent them away. ... I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that...an acquaintance with every science under the sun. . . . When a multitude of young men, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic, and observant, as young men are,... | |
 | 1926 - 308 pages
...merely brought a number of young men together for three or four years and then sent them away. ... I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that...an acquaintance with every science under the sun. . . . When a multitude of young men, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic, and observant, as young men are,... | |
 | Negley Harte - 2000 - 305 pages
...determine which of the two courses was the more successful in training, moulding, enlarging the mind . . ., I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that...an acquaintance with every science under the sun. JH NEWMAN, On the Scope and Nature of University Education (1850), pp.137-8. The University of London... | |
 | F. M. L. Thompson - 1990 - 306 pages
...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,...members an acquaintance with every science under the sun . . . How is this to be explained? I suppose as follows: when a multitude of young men, keen, open-hearted,... | |
 | Bill Readings - 1996 - 260 pages
...and then sent them away as the University of Oxford is said to have done some sixty years since ... I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that...an acquaintance with every science under the sun" (145). 12. Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1868), ed. J. Dover Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University... | |
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... 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... 
