Ten Years at Yale: A Series of Papers on Certain Defects in the University World of TodayShakespeare Press, 1915 - 216 pages |
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... things for granted . Let us not be content to live in a house that our ancestors built for us , and above all let us drive forever from our midst those two words — smug- ness and self - satisfaction . -The Yale News ( April 20th , 1912 ) ...
... things for granted . Let us not be content to live in a house that our ancestors built for us , and above all let us drive forever from our midst those two words — smug- ness and self - satisfaction . -The Yale News ( April 20th , 1912 ) ...
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... things been forced . I even hesitate to refer to them as efforts , for all my data have come unsought . The book is simply the natural outcome of having lived for a decade in a university world , where certain condi- tions stand in ...
... things been forced . I even hesitate to refer to them as efforts , for all my data have come unsought . The book is simply the natural outcome of having lived for a decade in a university world , where certain condi- tions stand in ...
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... things inside of five minutes . This varying con- versation reveals the usual status of their minds - minds that are everlastingly undergoing change in thought- minds in which no one seed or idea could possibly take root and sprout ...
... things inside of five minutes . This varying con- versation reveals the usual status of their minds - minds that are everlastingly undergoing change in thought- minds in which no one seed or idea could possibly take root and sprout ...
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... thing in the field he has chosen . He grows more and more narrow ( by degrees ) finally becoming a college professor in the limit . He is then a full - fledged maniac . Every college professor has his hobby . In Botany it may be algae ...
... thing in the field he has chosen . He grows more and more narrow ( by degrees ) finally becoming a college professor in the limit . He is then a full - fledged maniac . Every college professor has his hobby . In Botany it may be algae ...
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... things should be more equally distributed among men in general . How could such a distribution be accomplished ? If a mind is incapable of wandering , it will lead its possessor nowhere . If it cannot be concentrated , it is a very poor ...
... things should be more equally distributed among men in general . How could such a distribution be accomplished ? If a mind is incapable of wandering , it will lead its possessor nowhere . If it cannot be concentrated , it is a very poor ...
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Page 139 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 201 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 212 - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen ; and poured out the changers...
Page 173 - You will not hear— it is best to know it — what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than .is customary has been attempted in this story ; with no bad desire on the writer's part, it is hoped, and with no ill consequence to any reader.
Page 23 - We are all working together to one end, some with knowledge and design, and others without knowing what they do; as men also when they are asleep, of whom it is Heraclitus, I think, who says that they are labourers and cooperators in the things which take place in the universe.
Page 73 - Frankenstein monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; which turns out results like a cornsheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels of them! I have an immense respect for a man of talents plus "the mathematics.
Page 216 - We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift. Be strong ! Say not the days are evil. Who's to blame?
Page 161 - We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Page 194 - What this country needs above everything else is a body of laws which will look after the men who are on the make rather than the men who are already made.
Page 141 - East, the Possible, springs up. Mutiny of men thou wilt sternly repress ; weakness, despondency, thou wilt cheerily encourage : thou wilt swallow down complaint, unreason, weariness, weakness of others and thyself : — how much wilt thou swallow down ! There shall be a depth of Silence in thee, deeper than this Sea, which is but ten miles deep : a Silence unsoundable ; known to God only.