Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell BriggsHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 232 páginas |
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... believe , in large measure for the collapse of many a student's will be- fore any subject that requires hard math- ematical thinking . In Harvard College an elementary course in philosophy used to begin with lectures on psychology ...
... believe , in large measure for the collapse of many a student's will be- fore any subject that requires hard math- ematical thinking . In Harvard College an elementary course in philosophy used to begin with lectures on psychology ...
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... believe we do less to clear it now than when we paid more attention to those fundamental principles which tend to promote accu- racy in thought and in expression . I have said elsewhere- and I believe that one reason it with all my ...
... believe we do less to clear it now than when we paid more attention to those fundamental principles which tend to promote accu- racy in thought and in expression . I have said elsewhere- and I believe that one reason it with all my ...
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... believe I ever did . " The amateur athlete is held up to his best by the immediate , certain , and wide- spread fame of good playing , and the equally prompt and notorious shame of bad playing . He is held up , further , by the ...
... believe I ever did . " The amateur athlete is held up to his best by the immediate , certain , and wide- spread fame of good playing , and the equally prompt and notorious shame of bad playing . He is held up , further , by the ...
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... believe , no college in which the relation between instructor and pupil is more delightful . The ma- turer students are frequently consulted in matters of general importance and frequently called upon to help other stu- dents who need ...
... believe , no college in which the relation between instructor and pupil is more delightful . The ma- turer students are frequently consulted in matters of general importance and frequently called upon to help other stu- dents who need ...
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... , advanced money ( of which he was notoriously short ) for ne- cessary expenses , and then , exhausted , hastened to New York to meet his fel- low members of the Hasty Pudding Club ( who had started , I believe , the night 56 HARVARD AND.
... , advanced money ( of which he was notoriously short ) for ne- cessary expenses , and then , exhausted , hastened to New York to meet his fel- low members of the Hasty Pudding Club ( who had started , I believe , the night 56 HARVARD AND.
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Página 82 - As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Página 117 - And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough.
Página 68 - Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
Página 81 - ON bravely through the sunshine and the showers, Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
Página 69 - Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still : It sounds from all things old, It sounds from all things young, From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
Página 79 - Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.
Página 68 - Thou shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor, the sea for thy bath and navigation, without tax and without envy; the woods and the rivers thou shalt own; and thou shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sea-lord! air-lord!
Página 74 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 65 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 76 - It was good, nevertheless, to meet him in the woodpaths, or sometimes in our avenue, with that pure intellectual gleam diffused about his presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive more than he could impart.