College Life: Essays Reprinted from "School, College, and Character" and "Routine and Ideals"Houghton Mifflin, 1904 - 124 стор. |
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... shows its excellence in the attitude of the prefects when they come to college . This scheme makes a confident appeal to the maturity of some boys and the reasonableness of all , trusting all to see that the best hopes of teacher and ...
... shows its excellence in the attitude of the prefects when they come to college . This scheme makes a confident appeal to the maturity of some boys and the reasonableness of all , trusting all to see that the best hopes of teacher and ...
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... show them some dangers which other boys have met or have failed to meet , that they may not be taken unawares . A great man , almost too far above the temptations of the aver- age boy to understand them , has con- demned talking to boys ...
... show them some dangers which other boys have met or have failed to meet , that they may not be taken unawares . A great man , almost too far above the temptations of the aver- age boy to understand them , has con- demned talking to boys ...
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... show him that it is effrontery in a man who has been guilty of vice with women to ask for a pure girl's love . The time is only too likely to come when a young fellow who has yielded to the tremendous sudden temptation that is thrown at ...
... show him that it is effrontery in a man who has been guilty of vice with women to ask for a pure girl's love . The time is only too likely to come when a young fellow who has yielded to the tremendous sudden temptation that is thrown at ...
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... shows with profound and ex- quisite truth how two persons of strong character may grow into each other's love and into an understanding of it by doing their separate duties . To go on , girl or no girl , without excuses small or great ...
... shows with profound and ex- quisite truth how two persons of strong character may grow into each other's love and into an understanding of it by doing their separate duties . To go on , girl or no girl , without excuses small or great ...
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... shows an almost complete want of confidence in the honesty of athletics at another . Yet every college would maintain stead- ily , and nearly every college would main- tain honestly , that it stands for the truth . When I speak of a ...
... shows an almost complete want of confidence in the honesty of athletics at another . Yet every college would maintain stead- ily , and nearly every college would main- tain honestly , that it stands for the truth . When I speak of a ...
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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.