 Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this...  Oral English and Public Speaking - Page 99by Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1907 - 600 pages
...learning that young men need, not instruction about this or that, but a stiffening of the vertebno which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing. — Elbcrt Hnbbard. The Scorpion of Ceylon. A more disagreeable object than a scorpion of Ceylon it... | |
 | 1916 - 714 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertabrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...energies; do the thing — 'Carry a message to Garcia'!" In the very first clause of this extract there is a tightening of the ropes of attention. You can fairly... | |
 | 1916 - 762 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertabrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...energies; do the thing— 'Carry a message to Garcia'!" In the very first clause of this extract there is a tightening of the ropes of attention. You can fairly... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 pages
...book-learning young men ne*\i. nor instruction about this and that, but a stiflening of the vertebree which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act..." General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Gaicias. Xo man, who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were mvded, but has... | |
 | Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1898 - 426 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...energies : do the thing — " Carry a message to Garcia ! " fi fi General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man, who has endeavored to carry... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1899 - 28 pages
...placed in every college ol 6 A Message to Garcia the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening...appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man — the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pages
...bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening..." General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcías. ' ' No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1899 - 246 pages
...college student. "It is not booklearning young men need, nor instruction about this or that," so much as, "a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them...promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing required " — and to do it of their own initiative, using their own powers of thought. The student... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1899 - 24 pages
...and the statue placed in every college of the land «§£ It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be a loyal to a trust, to act promptly, con- A Message centrate their energies : do the thing — To Garcia... | |
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