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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... course which you thought proper to pursue is the triumph of modern civilization, and the dignified retort of your Society has not its equal in history. No unseemly ripple of disapproval showed itself, but the next year you sent your ...
... course which you thought proper to pursue is the triumph of modern civilization, and the dignified retort of your Society has not its equal in history. No unseemly ripple of disapproval showed itself, but the next year you sent your ...
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... course that those not born to an inheritance should adopt the army or navy, or one of the learned professions. The eldest son expected to fill his father's place in Parliament or as a county magistrate, and his brothers, for the most ...
... course that those not born to an inheritance should adopt the army or navy, or one of the learned professions. The eldest son expected to fill his father's place in Parliament or as a county magistrate, and his brothers, for the most ...
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... course. A newer treatise would sometimes take the place of an old one, but still it may be broadly said that for a great part of the century, the graduate of an American college left it with much the same education, in substance and in ...
... course. A newer treatise would sometimes take the place of an old one, but still it may be broadly said that for a great part of the century, the graduate of an American college left it with much the same education, in substance and in ...
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... course should be pursued by every student alike, without regard to his natural bent or capacity, or his future career in life. Few find fault with the hard and fast course at West Point — though even as this, some murmurings are ...
... course should be pursued by every student alike, without regard to his natural bent or capacity, or his future career in life. Few find fault with the hard and fast course at West Point — though even as this, some murmurings are ...
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... course any mind will expand by being brought into contact with large questions, broadly handled, and by friction with abler minds, but this will not go beyond a certain point. Some surfaces will never receive more than a certain amount ...
... course any mind will expand by being brought into contact with large questions, broadly handled, and by friction with abler minds, but this will not go beyond a certain point. Some surfaces will never receive more than a certain amount ...
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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.