Three Phi Beta Kappa Addresses: A College Fetich, 1883; "Shall Cromwell Have a Statue?" 1902; Some Modern College Tendencies, 1906Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 - 200 Seiten |
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¹ Infra ¹ Supra academic acquired American aptitudes average believe called cent century CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Civil classic close contrary cost course Cromwell dead languages degree devoted elective system endowment English existing experience fact faculties fetich French George Henry Thomas German graduated grammar gymnasium Harvard College Harvard University ideal increase individual institutions instructor Jacob Bigelow John Adams John Harvard knowledge Latin learning least lege less literary living matter ment mind modern number of students observation once outgo passed perhaps period Phi Beta Kappa practical preceptor present President Professor propose pursued question reason requirements respects result RICHARD HENRY DANA rience Robert E scholarships scientific secession speak spirit taught things thirty years ago thought tion to-day tongues traitor tuition fee Union University utterance Virginia Washington wholly William of Orange words youth
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Seite 153 - What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns. And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent; His servants he with new acquist Of true experience from this great event With peace and consolation hath dismissed. And calm of mind all passion spent.
Seite 149 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Seite 78 - Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It is intended for "perpetual union...
Seite 118 - Looking back as well as I can at my character during my school life, the only qualities which at this period promised well for the future were, that I had strong and diversified tastes, much zeal for whatever interested me, and a keen pleasure in understanding any complex subject or thing. I was taught Euclid by a private tutor, and I distinctly remember the intense satisfaction which the clear, geometrical proofs gave me.
Seite 121 - You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently." "How often?" "Well, some hundreds of times.
Seite 8 - ... to hold their own in it, and to carry off the prizes, — I must in all honesty say, that, looking back through the years, and recalling the requirements and methods of the ancient institution, I am unable to speak of it with all the respect I could wish. Such training as I got, useful for the struggle, I got after, instead of before graduation, and it came hard ; while I never have been able — and now, no matter how long I may live, I never shall be able — to overcome some great disadvantages...
Seite 58 - States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton, on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason, on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States, and from which each and every State had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.
Seite 79 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the army, and, save in defence of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword.
Seite 78 - The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn; and though I recognise no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question whether I should take part against my native State.
Seite 119 - During the three years which I spent at Cambridge my time was wasted, as far as the academical studies were concerned, as completely as at Edinburgh and at school.