College Life: Essays Reprinted from "School, College, and Character" and "Routine and Ideals"Houghton Mifflin, 1904 - 124 стор. |
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... has his themes written for him , or who cribs at examinations , or who excuses himself from college lectures because of " sick- ness " in order to rest after or before a dance , may be clever and funny to read about COLLEGE LIFE 31.
... has his themes written for him , or who cribs at examinations , or who excuses himself from college lectures because of " sick- ness " in order to rest after or before a dance , may be clever and funny to read about COLLEGE LIFE 31.
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... excuses , even fairly honest excuses , for work is the weakening effect of it on everyday life . The work of the world is in large measure done by people whose heads and throats and stomachs do not feel just right , but who go about ...
... excuses , even fairly honest excuses , for work is the weakening effect of it on everyday life . The work of the world is in large measure done by people whose heads and throats and stomachs do not feel just right , but who go about ...
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... excuse- mongers . " If you are too sick to be here regularly , " it says , " I am sorry for you , but I shall have to ... excuses which , if I may use an undergraduate expression , “ may be right , but are not stylish right . " I come ...
... excuse- mongers . " If you are too sick to be here regularly , " it says , " I am sorry for you , but I shall have to ... excuses which , if I may use an undergraduate expression , “ may be right , but are not stylish right . " I come ...
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... excuses small or great ; to do the appointed task and to do it cheerfully amid all distractions , all sorrows , all heartaches ; to make routine ( not blind but enlightened routine ) your friend- thus it is that by and by when you meet ...
... excuses small or great ; to do the appointed task and to do it cheerfully amid all distractions , all sorrows , all heartaches ; to make routine ( not blind but enlightened routine ) your friend- thus it is that by and by when you meet ...
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... order to the member of the firm whom he knew best , and asked him what he thought of it . " Come and dine with me , " said his patron , " and we will talk it over . " 66 " Excuse me , " said the young man 58 THE MISTAKES OF.
... order to the member of the firm whom he knew best , and asked him what he thought of it . " Come and dine with me , " said his patron , " and we will talk it over . " 66 " Excuse me , " said the young man 58 THE MISTAKES OF.
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Сторінка 103 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...
Сторінка 103 - There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. If there be such daily duties...
Сторінка 63 - IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Сторінка 103 - The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Сторінка 102 - Most of the performances of other animals are automatic. But in him the number of them is so enormous, that most of them must be the fruit of painful study. If practice did not make perfect, nor habit economize the expense of nervous and muscular energy, he would therefore be in a sorry plight.
Сторінка 67 - ... is sometimes called ; which haunts the home where it has been born, and which imbues and forms, more or less, and one by one, every individual who is successively brought under its shadow. Thus it is that, independent of direct instruction on the part of Superiors, there is a sort of self-education in the academic institutions of Protestant England; a characteristic tone of thought, a recognized standard of judgment is found in them, which, as developed in the individual who is submitted to it,...
Сторінка 66 - I am but saying that that youthful community will constitute a whole, it will embody a specific idea, it will represent a doctrine, it will administer a code of conduct, and it will furnish principles of thought and action. It will give birth to a living teaching, which in course of time will take the shape of a selfperpetuating tradition, or a genius loci, as it is sometimes called ; which haunts the home where it has been born, and which imbues and forms, more or less, and one by one, every individual...
Сторінка 124 - Field," and marked with a stone bearing the names of some dear friends, — alumni of the University, and noble gentlemen, — who gave freely and eagerly all that they had or hoped for, to their country and to their fellow-men in the hour of great need — the war of 1861 to 1865 in defence of the Republic.
Сторінка 61 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Сторінка 66 - ... there be no one to teach them ; the conversation of all is a series of lectures to each, and they gain for themselves new ideas and views, fresh matter of thought, and distinct principles for judging and acting, day by day.