Essays for College Men: 2d SeriesH. Holt, 1915 - 385 páginas |
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... Learning " is not involved . No one has ever dreamed of imparting learning to undergraduates . It cannot be done in four years . To become WHAT IS A COLLEGE FOR ? 5.
... Learning " is not involved . No one has ever dreamed of imparting learning to undergraduates . It cannot be done in four years . To become WHAT IS A COLLEGE FOR ? 5.
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... learning is the enterprise of a life - time . The issue does not rise to that high ground . The question is merely this : do we wish college to be , first of all and chiefly , a place of mental discipline or only a school of general ...
... learning is the enterprise of a life - time . The issue does not rise to that high ground . The question is merely this : do we wish college to be , first of all and chiefly , a place of mental discipline or only a school of general ...
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... learning , not for the purpose of ob- taining a definite preparation for anything , -no such purpose could become fashionable . clientage of our colleges has greatly changed since the time when most of the young men who resorted to them ...
... learning , not for the purpose of ob- taining a definite preparation for anything , -no such purpose could become fashionable . clientage of our colleges has greatly changed since the time when most of the young men who resorted to them ...
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... learning . The roads that traverse its vast and crowded spaces are not even parallel , and four years is too short a time in which to search them all out . But there is a gen- eral programme still possible by which the college student ...
... learning . The roads that traverse its vast and crowded spaces are not even parallel , and four years is too short a time in which to search them all out . But there is a gen- eral programme still possible by which the college student ...
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2d Series Norman Foerster. with whom learning and its thorough tasks are side interests merely , but as those who approach life with the intention of becoming professionals in its fields of achievement . Just now , where this is ...
2d Series Norman Foerster. with whom learning and its thorough tasks are side interests merely , but as those who approach life with the intention of becoming professionals in its fields of achievement . Just now , where this is ...
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Página 255 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 256 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 60 - O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer ; welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 99 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street...
Página 377 - If now — and this is my idea — there were, instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow.
Página 83 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.'' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 75 - The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, night and her stars. • Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
Página 377 - To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to roadbuilding and tunnel-making, to foundries and stokeholes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.
Página 81 - Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Página 185 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.