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... seems only a step ; but that step is across a mighty gulf that separates a girl from home and childhood , and sets her in a new great world where she is to work out her own destiny . The first days at college are almost sure to be a ...
... seems only a step ; but that step is across a mighty gulf that separates a girl from home and childhood , and sets her in a new great world where she is to work out her own destiny . The first days at college are almost sure to be a ...
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... seems to us that there is almost no type of wis- dom so high as that which , by anticipation , can learn from the faults and mistakes , from the virtues and success of others how to choose the right course of action and how to avoid the ...
... seems to us that there is almost no type of wis- dom so high as that which , by anticipation , can learn from the faults and mistakes , from the virtues and success of others how to choose the right course of action and how to avoid the ...
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... seem a strange question to ask Freshmen who not only know where they are going but have already gone ! It is a question that frequently comes into mind when I am waiting in the station of a great city , watching the endless procession ...
... seem a strange question to ask Freshmen who not only know where they are going but have already gone ! It is a question that frequently comes into mind when I am waiting in the station of a great city , watching the endless procession ...
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... seem calm , it is to the participants a spirit of great unrest . The Freshman girl with vague aspirations may find that she is forced by the very bitterness of the competition to weld for herself a personality and character that will be ...
... seem calm , it is to the participants a spirit of great unrest . The Freshman girl with vague aspirations may find that she is forced by the very bitterness of the competition to weld for herself a personality and character that will be ...
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... of anger and resentment . In the matter of ideals another problem appears . The ideals of two girls may be so different that what seems utterly and absolutely right to one may seem utterly and Getting Adjusted to the Campus 13.
... of anger and resentment . In the matter of ideals another problem appears . The ideals of two girls may be so different that what seems utterly and absolutely right to one may seem utterly and Getting Adjusted to the Campus 13.
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Page 38 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Page 129 - A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Page 38 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 25 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 68 - So was he lifted gently from the ground, And with their freight homeward the shepherds moved Through the dull mist, I following — when a step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapour, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul...
Page 48 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Page 67 - From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
Page 131 - Let the expression be the least thing in the world— speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers — but let it not fail to take place.
Page 37 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 73 - On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense.