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... to as many clubs as Jim or Jack may be fully comprehended only by the teachers and the boys themselves . One solution , just to all concerned , appears ready at hand . The thought is respectfully ventured that X INTRODUCTION.
... to as many clubs as Jim or Jack may be fully comprehended only by the teachers and the boys themselves . One solution , just to all concerned , appears ready at hand . The thought is respectfully ventured that X INTRODUCTION.
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... teachers to study each individual applicant for admission , to investi- gate his intellectual potentialities by personal conference . A nearly ideal arrangement is this practice . The larger colleges now pride themselves on their ...
... teachers to study each individual applicant for admission , to investi- gate his intellectual potentialities by personal conference . A nearly ideal arrangement is this practice . The larger colleges now pride themselves on their ...
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... teacher in main- taining high standards of general excellence . One last word must be said . Original and refreshing ... teachers of all ranks , for those only acquainted with the fascinating problem of education , these pages will ...
... teacher in main- taining high standards of general excellence . One last word must be said . Original and refreshing ... teachers of all ranks , for those only acquainted with the fascinating problem of education , these pages will ...
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... Teachers and sensible parents are well aware that youth at its best is unstable and still in that formative period when mistakes are often made and foolish acts not uncommon . Im- pulses are not always well directed and self- control is ...
... Teachers and sensible parents are well aware that youth at its best is unstable and still in that formative period when mistakes are often made and foolish acts not uncommon . Im- pulses are not always well directed and self- control is ...
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... teachers . What a trying life they must have at times and how little the boys appreciate them ! The thing that troubles me is that when George peri- odically loafs he loses . However , it is , as I tell him , his life and not mine , and ...
... teachers . What a trying life they must have at times and how little the boys appreciate them ! The thing that troubles me is that when George peri- odically loafs he loses . However , it is , as I tell him , his life and not mine , and ...
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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.