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Сторінка 102 - ... or the maintenance of life and health, the all-important knowledge is — science. For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is — science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is — science. Alike for the most perfect production...
Сторінка 216 - ... but are the combined essence and extracts of many different things, drawn from much varied reading and discipline, first, and observation afterwards. For if there be a single intelligible point on this head, it is that a man who has been trained to think upon one subject or for one subject only, will never be a good judge even in that one: whereas the enlargement of his circle gives him increased knowledge and power in a rapidly increasing ratio. So much do ideas act, not as solitary units, but...
Сторінка xxxviii - Constitution, may be adopted at any regular meeting. 2. This Constitution may be altered or amended, by a vote of two thirds of the members present at the annual meeting, provided two thirds of the Directors, present at a stated meeting, shall agree to recommend the proposed alteration or amendment.
Сторінка 102 - What knowledge is of most worth? — the uniform reply is — Science. This is the verdict on all the counts. For direct self-preservation, or the maintenance of life and health, the all-important knowledge is — Science. For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is — Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present,...
Сторінка xxxviii - Trustees may elect an auditor, to hold office during the pleasure of the Board, whose duty it shall be to audit the accounts of the Treasurer, and who shall report thereon from time to time as the Treasurer may require or as the Executive Committee may direct. The compensation to be paid such auditor shall be fixed by the Executive Committee subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees. SEC. V. The Director shall present a report of the work...
Сторінка 102 - The simple question to be considered is, how best to strengthen, refine, and enrich the intellectual powers; the perusal of the poets, historians, and philosophers of Greece and Rome will accomplish this purpose, as long experience has shown ; but that the study of the experimental sciences will do the like, is proved to us as yet by no experience whatever.
Сторінка xxiv - January 25, 180", died at his country-seat on Orange Mountain, August 81, 1880. In 1842 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of the City of New York. It was chiefly through his instrumentality that the reunion of the two schools of the Presbyterian Church was successfully accomplished in 1869. Since he became president of Union Theological Seminary the endowments of the institution have been increased nearly...
Сторінка 221 - There is something a little pathetic in seeing a real philosopher trying to teach a company of busy undergraduates, who have never learned to meditate. ' May we not say of the philosopher,' asks Plato, ' that he is a lover, not of a part of wisdom, but of the whole ? ' The philosopher, finding himself in an intellectual community where the interests are highly specialized, becomes a little uneasy and self-conscious. In order to be in the fashion he must appear to be a specialist also. And so he frequently...
Сторінка 193 - The parents of children need instruction as well as the children themselves. The home influence and the school influence should be harmonious, or confusion and uncertainty will arise in the child's mind as to what he should do. The people must be reminded that the school is an integral part of the community, and not a separate affair which the law compels them to support, and which takes their children away when their assistance on the farm is most valuable (Appendix O).
Сторінка 140 - English writing can be extirpated at once by the combined efforts of all the teachers. A pupil taking a high school diploma while still in the habit of careless writing, should be an impossibility. The only safeguard against the growth of habits of slovenly speech and slovenly writing is a high public spirit pervading the entire corps of teachers in favor of good English. If the teachers are agreed on this point, their sentiment will become the ambition of the school. Villari tells us that at Eton...