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Página 111 - If we think of it, all that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves ! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for...
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Página 152 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest...
Página 280 - like a faithful wife, following the mind and giving birth to its offspring," and, free from that " luggage of particles " which clogs our modern tongues, leaves a mysterious vagueness between the relation of word to word, which materially assists the sentiment, not the sense, of the poem.
Página 78 - ... many parts ; so as to avoid a long confinement at one time. Young persons, however well disposed, cannot support a restriction to one place and one posture. Nature resists such restrictions ; and if enforced, they are apt to create disgust with the means and the object. Thus children learn to hate studies that might be rendered agreeable, and they take an aversion to instructors, who would otherwise be interesting to them. The postures they assume while seated at their studies, are not indifferent....
Página 274 - ... that great poem, which all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world.
Página 77 - Nature, as we have before said, if left to herself, is all-sufficient to the development of physical organization. But we live in an artificial state — a state that continually thwarts the course of the native dispositions of the animal economy ; and as we must abandon the advantages of these, we must seek for substitutes in an artificial process. The principles which should form the basis of such a process will readily be seen, on attending to the nature and the causes of these defects. We shall...
Página 79 - From the observations of anatomists lately made, it appears that the clavicle or collar-bone is actually longer in females of the French nation than in those of the English. As the two nations are of the same race, as there is no other remarkable difference in their bones, and this is peculiar to the sex, it must be attributed, as I believe, to the habit above-mentioned, which, by the extension of the arms, has gradually produced a national elongation of this bone. Thus we see that habit may be employed...
Página 3 - ... other States at future anniversaries of the Convocation. At the fifth anniversary, held August 4th, 5th and 6th, 1868, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That there be appointed by the Chancellor, at each annual meeting, a committee of necrology, to consist of three persons. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of each member of the Convocation to notify the chairman of the committee of necrology of the decease of members occurring in their immediate neighborhood or...
Página 2 - Legislature of the State, personally and through the press, so as to secure such an appreciation of a thorough system of education, together with such pecuniary aid and legislative enactments as will place the institutions represented here in a position worthy of the population and resources of the State.