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... , St. Mark's School Introduction by DAVID M. LITTLE Formerly Assistant Dean of Harvard College SCIRE QUOD SCIENDUM BOSTON SMALL , MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS 58 COPYRIGHT , 1925 BY SMALL , MAYNARD & COMPANY THE EDUCATION OF.
... , St. Mark's School Introduction by DAVID M. LITTLE Formerly Assistant Dean of Harvard College SCIRE QUOD SCIENDUM BOSTON SMALL , MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS 58 COPYRIGHT , 1925 BY SMALL , MAYNARD & COMPANY THE EDUCATION OF.
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... Harvard , has not been , it would seem , suffi- ciently studied . Other manifestations of the organizing mania are apparent . An open - minded ob- server may well be amazed at the extraor- dinary growth of radio clubs , camera clubs and ...
... Harvard , has not been , it would seem , suffi- ciently studied . Other manifestations of the organizing mania are apparent . An open - minded ob- server may well be amazed at the extraor- dinary growth of radio clubs , camera clubs and ...
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... Harvard Club and member- ship in that body was essential to his business interests ! That was one benefit to be derived from going to college . Inconceivable as it sounds , business and social ends influence in many cases the choice of ...
... Harvard Club and member- ship in that body was essential to his business interests ! That was one benefit to be derived from going to college . Inconceivable as it sounds , business and social ends influence in many cases the choice of ...
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... Harvard Law School , " in order to understand law Latin , and the Latin maxims and phrases of which the books are full , that leads teach- ers of law to insist upon the importance of classical training . It is the lawyer's everyday ...
... Harvard Law School , " in order to understand law Latin , and the Latin maxims and phrases of which the books are full , that leads teach- ers of law to insist upon the importance of classical training . It is the lawyer's everyday ...
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... Harvard University this year ( 1925 ) a larger number are headed for teaching than for the law . With this encour- aging turn we may insist upon a higher stan- dard of excellence in those who shall give themselves to the work . In the ...
... Harvard University this year ( 1925 ) a larger number are headed for teaching than for the law . With this encour- aging turn we may insist upon a higher stan- dard of excellence in those who shall give themselves to the work . In the ...
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Page 88 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 77 - My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
Page 124 - The ideal of a general, liberal training is, to carry us to a knowledge of ourselves and the world. We are called to this knowledge by special aptitudes which are born with us; the grand thing in teaching is to have faith that some aptitudes of this kind everyone has.
Page vii - Ye alight in our van! at your voice, Panic, despair, flee away. Ye move through the ranks, recall The stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, re-inspire the brave!
Page 117 - There is no better way for the student to train himself in the choice of the very word that will fit his thought than by translation from Latin and Greek. Thus he develops habits of analysis, habits of discriminating choice of words, habits of accurate apprehension of the meaning which another has sought to convey by written words, which lead to power of expression and to power of clear thinking. Such habits are worth more to the lawyer than all the information which a modern school may hope to impart.
Page 120 - What you cannot find a substitute for is the classics as literature; and there can be no first hand contact with that literature if you will not master the grammar and the syntax which convey its subtle power.
Page 187 - ... ordeal. The chairman of the football committee at a great Eastern University explained to a mass meeting that preparedness was the chief justification for intercollegiate football. He said that unless the young men of America submitted to the arduous discipline and drill of training and the hard fierce knocks of fighting football, we should have no adequate officers for our next war. But I won't want to use that reasoning on my small son.
Page 113 - It has been well said that the purpose of education is not so much to prepare children for their occupations as against their occupations. It must develop in them the powers and interest that will make them the masters and not the slaves of their work.
Page 178 - The game which is lost may be cancelled by victory on the succeeding day. And all this serves to create in the mind of the impressionable a picture of life more accurate than that which is conveyed by football. Defeat is a portion of every man born into the world. He must learn to accept it and, if he is to amount to much in his community, he must get from every check a certain stimulus to appeal from the decision. There is no use crying over spilt milk because it is no great trouble to run around...
Page 181 - A long cheer with three Harvards on the end," cries the man in the white sweater through his megaphone. It is entirely possible that at the precise moments he calls upon me and my fellows to declare ourselves there is stored up in none of us more than a short cheer. It may even be that we have no inclination to cheer at all.