Technology Review, Volume 4Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1902 |
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Page 434 - The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books; The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
Page 195 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 439 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 24 - Here's to pure mathematics, and may it never be of any use to anybody!" But the ambitious young man or woman in Boston who is earning a living, and who is willing to struggle for the increased power and pleasure which come from technical knowledge of one's own calling, has not exhausted his opportunities in the night schools maintained by the city and by private thoughtfulness. There has grown up...
Page 195 - ... in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may, upon payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceeding had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 192 - ... belief. The priests who crucified Christ felt no doubt of their devotion to truth. A few centuries later those who called themselves followers of Christ found in their hands the power to persecute men for their opinions, and they did not hesitate to use it. As the Rev. John Cotton, in his controversy with Roger Williams, naively asserted, persecution is not wrong in itself. " It is wicked," said he, " for falsehood to persecute truth, but it is the sacred duty of truth to persecute falsehood,"...
Page 296 - The ideas involved in the system are, first, to entirely separate the instruction shops from the construction shops; second, to do each kind of work in its own shop; third, to equip each shop with as many places and sets of tools, and thus accommodate as many pupils as a teacher can instruct at the same time; and...
Page 24 - Somehow, the German plan of using a technical equipment, — for instance, that of a manual training school, — to its full capacity, by instructing one class of pupils in the day and another in the evening, is not one which has as yet commended itself to our American teachers ; and it must be admitted that the teaching of the use of hand-tools in this country, while it undoubtedly offers a valuable addition to the school curriculum, makes this contribution on the academic side. Instruction in manual...
Page 16 - Fifteen years ago the city of Berlin undertook the solution of this same question. The consideration of the problem was placed in the hands of earnest and thoughtful men. The result of their labors has led to the establishment of a system of secondary technical schools whose character and function I shall endeavor briefly to describe. In examining the plans for industrial education in Berlin one needs to remember that the system of regular day schools in all German cities includes not only the Gymnasium...
Page 283 - Technology, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development, and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce...