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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... young men throughout the country find themselves without the means of ... child who kicks the chair he has fallen over — but it is natural, and at any rate it ... requirements of his intended calling with relation to his own capacity to ...
... young men throughout the country find themselves without the means of ... child who kicks the chair he has fallen over — but it is natural, and at any rate it ... requirements of his intended calling with relation to his own capacity to ...
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... requirements. A man of merely average capacity, be he ever so industrious, ever so ambitious, may sit solitary in his office, heartsick with hope deferred. For this there are many reasons. Much of the work which used to come to a young ...
... requirements. A man of merely average capacity, be he ever so industrious, ever so ambitious, may sit solitary in his office, heartsick with hope deferred. For this there are many reasons. Much of the work which used to come to a young ...
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... young men. Of these, we see some who, with clear and fast-working brains, gluttons of work, knowing no particular ... requires a young man, in order to have the reputation of being well educated, to load his memory with a vast amount of ...
... young men. Of these, we see some who, with clear and fast-working brains, gluttons of work, knowing no particular ... requires a young man, in order to have the reputation of being well educated, to load his memory with a vast amount of ...
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... requiring a young man to study Greek or mathematics for mental discipline — which talk is still kept up by some college professors — is not a delusion merely; it is an abomination. It signally demonstrates the unfitness of those persons ...
... requiring a young man to study Greek or mathematics for mental discipline — which talk is still kept up by some college professors — is not a delusion merely; it is an abomination. It signally demonstrates the unfitness of those persons ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.