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Page xi
... with commit- tees and clubs , excrescences on the regular occupation . The same problem vexes the col- lege official even to a greater extent than the headmaster . President Angell of Yale , in his last INTRODUCTION xi.
... with commit- tees and clubs , excrescences on the regular occupation . The same problem vexes the col- lege official even to a greater extent than the headmaster . President Angell of Yale , in his last INTRODUCTION xi.
Page xvii
... lege president in the country is sorely embar- rassed by the multitude knocking at his gates and craving admission . The demand far ex- ceeds the supply . More and more it is becom- ing the school's imperative and bounden duty to drill ...
... lege president in the country is sorely embar- rassed by the multitude knocking at his gates and craving admission . The demand far ex- ceeds the supply . More and more it is becom- ing the school's imperative and bounden duty to drill ...
Page 108
... lege supplies something other than that which comes from the State university . The private day school , it is true , labors under certain disadvantages . Its pupils have in many instances begun their studies late . The custom 108 ...
... lege supplies something other than that which comes from the State university . The private day school , it is true , labors under certain disadvantages . Its pupils have in many instances begun their studies late . The custom 108 ...
Page 114
... lege because the ' average man ' never used them or recurred to them in after life . One feels inclined to say , ' All the worse for the average man , ' and to feel sorry for his loss of so much that is elevating and delightful . But ...
... lege because the ' average man ' never used them or recurred to them in after life . One feels inclined to say , ' All the worse for the average man , ' and to feel sorry for his loss of so much that is elevating and delightful . But ...
Page 168
... lege contests a generous spirit of good faith on the part of one rival has never failed to result in gaining the same from the other party , and as a tribute to the sportsmanship of the race , it is generally repaid twofold . Mr ...
... lege contests a generous spirit of good faith on the part of one rival has never failed to result in gaining the same from the other party , and as a tribute to the sportsmanship of the race , it is generally repaid twofold . Mr ...
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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.