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... England * would once again have to justify , not only their curricula , but , it might be , their very exist- The spirit of the age seemed to be inclined toward utilitarianism , and the trend of public opinion in that direction would ...
... England * would once again have to justify , not only their curricula , but , it might be , their very exist- The spirit of the age seemed to be inclined toward utilitarianism , and the trend of public opinion in that direction would ...
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... England would be judged , not so much on intellectual as on moral grounds . * These remarks , uttered at a public school by one who has only just ceased to be a schoolmaster and head of the scholastic world in England , happen to ...
... England would be judged , not so much on intellectual as on moral grounds . * These remarks , uttered at a public school by one who has only just ceased to be a schoolmaster and head of the scholastic world in England , happen to ...
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... England were at a low ebb when Babbage , Peacock , Herschel , and other devoted students founded the Analytical Society at Cam- bridge in 1813. Its purpose , as Babbage wittily des- cribed it , was " to inculcate the principles of pure ...
... England were at a low ebb when Babbage , Peacock , Herschel , and other devoted students founded the Analytical Society at Cam- bridge in 1813. Its purpose , as Babbage wittily des- cribed it , was " to inculcate the principles of pure ...
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... England was the last great country of the world to discard Euclid in favour of some more suitable text - book . Though all that was said in praise of Euclid could be admitted - that it had been the en- couragement and guide of ...
... England was the last great country of the world to discard Euclid in favour of some more suitable text - book . Though all that was said in praise of Euclid could be admitted - that it had been the en- couragement and guide of ...
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... England - Mr . S. H. Butcher and the late Professor Jebb - have expressed themselves in favour of not beginning Greek before the age of fourteen . A discussion of methods does not , as we said , fall within our brief , and all we can ...
... England - Mr . S. H. Butcher and the late Professor Jebb - have expressed themselves in favour of not beginning Greek before the age of fourteen . A discussion of methods does not , as we said , fall within our brief , and all we can ...
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Page 63 - Because a man has shop to mind In time and place, since flesh must live, Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give? I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute!
Page 154 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Page 144 - I cannot deny that you have an anxious duty, — a duty which some might suppose was too heavy for your years. But it seems to me the nobler as well as the truer way of stating the case, to say that it is the great privilege of this and other such institutions, to anticipate the common time of manhood ; that by their whole training they fit the character for manly duties at an age when, under another system, such duties would be impracticable...
Page 105 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of beauty and grace; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, will meet the sense like a breeze, and insensibly draw the soul even in childhood into harmony with the beauty of reason.
Page 293 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 46 - ... all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time? Into that you may enter always; in that you may take fellowship and rank according to your wish ; from that, once entered into it, you can never be...
Page 46 - Nam ceterae neque temporum sunt, neque aetatum omnium, neque locorum : haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant ; secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent ; delectant domi, non impediunt foris ; pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Page 158 - There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 156 - Young men must be young men," as the worthy head of your college said to me touching a case of rustication. " My dear sir," said I, " I only wish to heaven they would be ; but as for my own nephews, they seem to me a sort of hobbadi-hoy cherub, too big to be innocent, and too simple for anything else. They're full of the notion of the world being so wicked, and of their taking a higher line, as they call it. I only fear they'll never take any line at all.
Page 144 - ... you have an anxious duty, a duty which some might suppose was too heavy for your years. But it seems to me the nobler as well as the truer way of stating the case to say, that it is the great privilege of this and other such institutions, to anticipate the common term of manhood ; that by their whole training they , fit the character for manly duties at an age when under another system such duties would be impracticable...