The Case of the Educated Unemployed: An Address Delivered Before the Harvard Chapter of the Fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, June 25th, 1885Porter & Coates, 1885 - 31 páginas |
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... battle of life as it was here to be fought, as the graduate of an English university, to say nothing of the fact that the latter had continued his training for that battle two or three years longer. At a recent "gentle and joyous ...
... battle of life as it was here to be fought, as the graduate of an English university, to say nothing of the fact that the latter had continued his training for that battle two or three years longer. At a recent "gentle and joyous ...
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... battle of life, is a handicap to the intellect. The really successful men, the great brain-workers, know that the art of succeeding consists largely in the art of forgetting. The remembering of useless knowledge is, therefore, the ...
... battle of life, is a handicap to the intellect. The really successful men, the great brain-workers, know that the art of succeeding consists largely in the art of forgetting. The remembering of useless knowledge is, therefore, the ...
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... battle of Salamis was fought B. C. 480, and he whose knowledge consists largely in piling together such propositions or facts cannot be called educated. Any one may get through his classics using a crib instead of his grammar and ...
... battle of Salamis was fought B. C. 480, and he whose knowledge consists largely in piling together such propositions or facts cannot be called educated. Any one may get through his classics using a crib instead of his grammar and ...
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... battle to the strong. As turfmen say, "it is the pace that kills," and the pace to-day is so fast that all but a few are distanced. It is literally the survival of the fittest. This may sound hard and cruel — it may have too much of the ...
... battle to the strong. As turfmen say, "it is the pace that kills," and the pace to-day is so fast that all but a few are distanced. It is literally the survival of the fittest. This may sound hard and cruel — it may have too much of the ...
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... battle of life as they intended to fight it, and the victory is like those of Pyr- rhus. That inexorable creditor, Nature, is at their door and cries, "Pay me that thou owest." And they have not wherewithal to pay. So much for college ...
... battle of life as they intended to fight it, and the victory is like those of Pyr- rhus. That inexorable creditor, Nature, is at their door and cries, "Pay me that thou owest." And they have not wherewithal to pay. So much for college ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 29 - The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guided him to truth. They have filled his mind with noble and graceful images. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes, comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude. These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides on; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...
Página 29 - Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal education | naturally entertains towards the great minds of former ages. | The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guided him to truth. | They have filled his mind with noble and graceful images. | They have stood by him in all vicissitudes, | comforters in sorrow, | nurses in sickness, | companions in solitude.
Página 21 - We cannot prove it as we can prove that the three angles of a triangle equal two right angles or that water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.
Página 4 - So long as the heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone we must have a number of communities that fall short of this ideal.
Página 6 - I may be permitted to recall the memories of my own youth, when both mind and body were curiously dealt with, when to handle a foil, an oar or a cricket bat met with grave head-shakes...
Página 29 - These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.