The Freshman and His College: A College ManualFrank Cummins Lockwood D. C. Heath & Company, 1913 - 156 pages |
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acquaintance ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN Arminian become believe body Bowdoin College brain century CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT college athletics college course course of study cross-country running cultivated culture DAVID STARR JORDAN demands discipline element engineering essential experience fact faculty feeling fellows field FRANCIS CUMMINS Freshman fundamental give graduates habits higher education human idea ideal idleness imagination institutions intellectual interest JOHN GRIER HIBBEN kind knowledge learned Leland Stanford liberal college liberal education literature living matter means ment mental merely method mind moral Nassau Hall nature nerve-cells never one's passion philosophy play possible practice President principles problems profes professional school Professor scholar scholarship scientific scientific method sense small college social special permission spirit student task teachers teaching things thought tion true truth WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE worth young youth
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Page 151 - ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never\ wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them,
Page 5 - to develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order; . . . and generally to form them to habits of reflection and correct action, rendering them examples of virtue to others, and of happiness within themselves.
Page 151 - JOHN HENRY NEWMAN HENCE it is that it is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as
Page 10 - to him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that he
Page 35 - The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest "swell," but he simply cannot buy the right things. An invisible law, as strong as gravitation, keeps him within his orbit, arrayed this year as he was the last; and how his
Page 38 - not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. A "character," as JS Mill says, "is a completely fashioned will"; and a will, in the sense in which he means it, is an aggregate of tendencies
Page 1 - For eager teachers seized my youth, Pruned my faith and trimmed my fire, Showed me the high, white star of truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire. I
Page 124 - other descriptive sciences. These a boy must know, so far as they are significant and relevant to his purpose. Fourthly, as all three of these factors — the motives, the institutions, the natural processes — have sprung from the past and have come to be what they are by change upon change in the process of
Page 81 - exponents and advocates of humanism now recognize that science is the "paramount force of the modern as distinguished from the antique and the mediaeval spirit" [John Addington Symonds, Culture], and that "an interpretation of humanism with science, and of science with humanism, is the condition of the highest culture.
Page 23 - THE young man's first duty is toward his after-self. So live that your after-self, the man you ought to be, may be possible and actual. Far away in the twenties, the thirties of our century, he is awaiting his time. His body, his brain, his soul are in your