Annual Report of the President

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The University, 1895

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Sida 70 - ... others and bewails his own bad luck. He firmly believes that malignant spirits have conspired against him. History, economics, and sociology are receiving more attention today than ever before. Why ? Because men want light on present conditions that will help in the solution of important problems. Today not the ancient history of the steam engine is demanded, but the ability to construct the most modern and approved forms and to suggest still further improvements; not the story of how Franklin...
Sida 58 - The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel: They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers...
Sida 69 - ... is likely to occur. The man who succeeds must not only be equal to the emergency, but must be able to create an emergency where none exists. Men are not so much the product of the times as the times are what men make them. It is not possible for one to isolate himself from the present and give his whole attention to his business to the exclusion of surroundings. True, there are many who attempt to do this, but they never attain to more than a respectable mediocrity and spend their lives in a...
Sida 70 - Franklin discovered the relation of the lightning to the electric fluid, but the ability to design and construct the dynamo that will run the greatest number of lights at least expense; not how the subject of alchemy has developed into modern chemistry, but how to conduct manufactures, prepare fertilizers, and compound pharmaceutical preparations with the least possible waste.
Sida 45 - ... schools after a satisfactory examination by a committee of the faculty. Application for such an examination may be made by an officer of the school to the president of the university, on the Icisis...
Sida 69 - THIS is an age of activity and advancement. The one who succeeds will do so because of his ability to enter into competition with others and win success by his own energy and acuteness. There is not a profession but has many followers. There is not a business that does not apparently have as many engaged in it already as can pursue it with profit. There is not an occupation that does not seem to lack room on account of the numbers that have chosen it, In order to insure success under these circumstances...
Sida 68 - ... ciphers ; for intellectual despotism has this in common with all despotic authority. History teaches us that we can reach nothing great or lasting, but by addressing ourselves to the soul. If the soul decays, there can be no longer great thoughts or great actions. Society lives by the spirit which inhabits it./ It may, for an instant, submit to the empire of force, but, in the long run, it hearkens only to the voice of justice. It was thus that the greatest revolution which history records, that...
Sida 44 - Even some of our universities, from which we naturally expect so much, seem disposed from time to time to lower their standard and yield too readily to the demand for purely practical education, when, after all, the great reason of all education is to draw forth the best qualities of the young man...
Sida 64 - All law, civil and religious, has as its purpose the promotion of human life, and when it ceases to serve that end it becomes obsolete and is to be superseded. To quote a good Talmudic maxim, "The Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath"; and what was true for the Sabbath applied likewise to all [104] other law.
Sida 56 - Rookli, &c. 3. Decasyllabics, having, in strictness, five accents. If rhyming in couplets, they form the famous heroic metre : — Awake ! | my St. | John, leave | all mea-|ner things | To low | ambi-|tion, and | the pride | of kings. | It is needless to remark that an enormous quantity of verse has been composed in this metre. Sometimes the rhymes occur irregularly, as in Lycidas: — Fame is | the spur | that the | clear spirit | doth raise, | (That last...

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