Occasional AddressesTufts college Press, 1902 - 242 páginas |
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... possible . They act and re- act upon one another . Especially does the college proper exert an elevating and inspir- ing influence upon the professional school . It awakens within it the philosophic spirit , takes away in a measure the ...
... possible . They act and re- act upon one another . Especially does the college proper exert an elevating and inspir- ing influence upon the professional school . It awakens within it the philosophic spirit , takes away in a measure the ...
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... possible for themselves , but to serve , as they are able , their country and their kind ; and , above all , if they maintain , through all the vicissitudes of their experience , an affec- tionate regard for their Alma Mater , sound ...
... possible for themselves , but to serve , as they are able , their country and their kind ; and , above all , if they maintain , through all the vicissitudes of their experience , an affec- tionate regard for their Alma Mater , sound ...
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... possible reality . Certainly it can- not be more improbable than even our present attainments must have seemed when the first President was inaugurated twenty years ago . We have no apologies to make for the exist- ence of this College ...
... possible reality . Certainly it can- not be more improbable than even our present attainments must have seemed when the first President was inaugurated twenty years ago . We have no apologies to make for the exist- ence of this College ...
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... possible to set any reasonable limit to what might profitably be done . Why , even a mill- ion dollars would not be too large a founda- tion for such a collection as every first - class university should have . We need a gymna- sium ...
... possible to set any reasonable limit to what might profitably be done . Why , even a mill- ion dollars would not be too large a founda- tion for such a collection as every first - class university should have . We need a gymna- sium ...
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... possible to foretell . If the world does not absolutely forget those who have served it with heroic courage and self - denying fidelity , it surely should set apart a simple chaplet for the spot where his dust reposes . Of course he ...
... possible to foretell . If the world does not absolutely forget those who have served it with heroic courage and self - denying fidelity , it surely should set apart a simple chaplet for the spot where his dust reposes . Of course he ...
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Página 12 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 171 - In all its history it has been beneficent; it has trodden down no man's liberty ; it has crushed no State. Its daily respiration is liberty and patriotism ; its yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable love of glory and renown. Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth across the whole continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the...
Página 167 - The American struggles against the obstacles that Nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russian are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter, civilization with all its arms.
Página 128 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; * See Note 18.
Página 8 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 167 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Página 205 - As necessity was a taskmaster over them, so they were forced to be such, not only to their servants but in a...
Página 167 - ... their existence and their greatness at almost the same time. All other nations seem to have nearly reached their natural limits, and only to be charged with the maintenance of their power; but these are still in the act of growth...
Página 207 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them...
Página 233 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.