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, 1885 |
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... Nearly fifty years ago, when a distinguished scholar of my own city* was
honored with an invitation to address your Society, he suggested, with a grace
peculiarly his own, that you had gone beyond your own ranks, every man in
which was, ...
... Nearly fifty years ago, when a distinguished scholar of my own city* was
honored with an invitation to address your Society, he suggested, with a grace
peculiarly his own, that you had gone beyond your own ranks, every man in
which was, ...
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But the reason ceases in proportion as the after-college life shall vary in its
objects, and this is now so thoroughly felt that whatever differences of thought
exist among those who conduct colleges which justly claim to be in the front rank,
they ...
But the reason ceases in proportion as the after-college life shall vary in its
objects, and this is now so thoroughly felt that whatever differences of thought
exist among those who conduct colleges which justly claim to be in the front rank,
they ...
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And, presenting, as they do, such a square within their zareba, it does look
hopeless to the legal Arab that he should ever expect to break through their
serried ranks. Still another reason may be referred to — the positive falling off in
some of ...
And, presenting, as they do, such a square within their zareba, it does look
hopeless to the legal Arab that he should ever expect to break through their
serried ranks. Still another reason may be referred to — the positive falling off in
some of ...
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There are brakemen who never get to be more, and there are soldiers who never
attain the rank of a corporal. But here is where the education comes in, and the
mechanical instruction and practical knowledge, based as they are on college ...
There are brakemen who never get to be more, and there are soldiers who never
attain the rank of a corporal. But here is where the education comes in, and the
mechanical instruction and practical knowledge, based as they are on college ...
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... Hall, of those of Harvard University who so loved their country that they gave
up their lives at her call, so no feeble words from a stranger in your ranks can add
to the memories invoked by the names of those who appear upon your rolls.
... Hall, of those of Harvard University who so loved their country that they gave
up their lives at her call, so no feeble words from a stranger in your ranks can add
to the memories invoked by the names of those who appear upon your rolls.
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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.