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... Youth is no- toriously prodigal of physical strength and nervous energy . Feeling well and buoyant , it squanders its possessions with little thought of conservation or development . And yet , as Dr. Lockwood reminds us , not only is ...
... Youth is no- toriously prodigal of physical strength and nervous energy . Feeling well and buoyant , it squanders its possessions with little thought of conservation or development . And yet , as Dr. Lockwood reminds us , not only is ...
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... youth and training to the task , and , whether you succeed or not , justify as far as it lies in your power to do so , the great privilege that has been yours of enjoying with your brothers the advantage of a broad college education ...
... youth and training to the task , and , whether you succeed or not , justify as far as it lies in your power to do so , the great privilege that has been yours of enjoying with your brothers the advantage of a broad college education ...
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... youth more than now . In the last century , when women students were still a picked lot , and earnest sentimentality plus lingering trouble over the Darwinian theory was an ordinary pose , one never encountered more keen and serious ...
... youth more than now . In the last century , when women students were still a picked lot , and earnest sentimentality plus lingering trouble over the Darwinian theory was an ordinary pose , one never encountered more keen and serious ...
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... one Who passes by me is a mystery . " What are they thinking about , these young people ? Oh for a cross - section of the ideas of youth in 1924 ! Now the X - ray to photograph the contents of consciousness 32 The Freshman Girl.
... one Who passes by me is a mystery . " What are they thinking about , these young people ? Oh for a cross - section of the ideas of youth in 1924 ! Now the X - ray to photograph the contents of consciousness 32 The Freshman Girl.
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... youth , peruse these paragraphs . Well ! It is for the sake of young people seeking the solution of questions like these that colleges exist , pri- marily . And it is because there are many such young people that the teacher , in spite ...
... youth , peruse these paragraphs . Well ! It is for the sake of young people seeking the solution of questions like these that colleges exist , pri- marily . And it is because there are many such young people that the teacher , in spite ...
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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.