College Life: Essays Reprinted from "School, College, and Character" and "Routine and Ideals"Houghton Mifflin, 1904 - 124 стор. |
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... stand up three months ? College is the world ; fitting for college is fitting for life : what is the matter with your school ? " He who loses his ideals loses the very bloom of life . To see a young man's ideals rap- idly slipping away ...
... stand up three months ? College is the world ; fitting for college is fitting for life : what is the matter with your school ? " He who loses his ideals loses the very bloom of life . To see a young man's ideals rap- idly slipping away ...
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... stand behind and kick him.1 Mr. X [ a well - known schoolmaster ] says , ' Jones , will you please do this or that ; ' Mr. Y stands behind Jones and kicks him into college . " I do not accept the young graduate's alternative ; but I ...
... stand behind and kick him.1 Mr. X [ a well - known schoolmaster ] says , ' Jones , will you please do this or that ; ' Mr. Y stands behind Jones and kicks him into college . " I do not accept the young graduate's alternative ; but I ...
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... tions , and what some one has called the " strain on their higher motives , " we wonder more and more at the strength of the temptation to knowledge , whereby so many stand steady , and work their way out into SCHOOL TO COLLEGE 17.
... tions , and what some one has called the " strain on their higher motives , " we wonder more and more at the strength of the temptation to knowledge , whereby so many stand steady , and work their way out into SCHOOL TO COLLEGE 17.
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... stand steady , and work their way out into clear - headed and trustworthy manhood . One way to deal with these strange , excited , inexperienced , and intensely hu- man things called Freshmen is to let them flounder till they drown or ...
... stand steady , and work their way out into clear - headed and trustworthy manhood . One way to deal with these strange , excited , inexperienced , and intensely hu- man things called Freshmen is to let them flounder till they drown or ...
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... stand up again and again in a col- lege debating club , may fail again and again , and through his failure may rise to success ; whereas if he should put off his efforts until some political campaign had called him to the stump , no ...
... stand up again and again in a col- lege debating club , may fail again and again , and through his failure may rise to success ; whereas if he should put off his efforts until some political campaign had called him to the stump , no ...
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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.