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... become the mind which has digested them ; but facts alone , until they are digested , are not merely unnourishing : they are apt to clog the intellectual colon . It is also true that we must have skills of various sorts ; but skills ...
... become the mind which has digested them ; but facts alone , until they are digested , are not merely unnourishing : they are apt to clog the intellectual colon . It is also true that we must have skills of various sorts ; but skills ...
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... become a real thinker , and that for social welfare the college must conform to this natural and unim- portant limitation . But in the long run government , even if its form of ultimate control be democratic , must be under the ...
... become a real thinker , and that for social welfare the college must conform to this natural and unim- portant limitation . But in the long run government , even if its form of ultimate control be democratic , must be under the ...
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to interpret them ; and that interpre- tation is bound to become a religious activity . It is religion in colleges that the increasingly rebellious undergrad- uates miss , even though that is not a phrase they themselves are wont to use ...
to interpret them ; and that interpre- tation is bound to become a religious activity . It is religion in colleges that the increasingly rebellious undergrad- uates miss , even though that is not a phrase they themselves are wont to use ...
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... become just that . They have little or no percep- tion of standards of truth , beauty , or goodness ; they have no goals of purposeful perfection with which to estimate values or by which to gauge achievement . All these things are to ...
... become just that . They have little or no percep- tion of standards of truth , beauty , or goodness ; they have no goals of purposeful perfection with which to estimate values or by which to gauge achievement . All these things are to ...
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... become the leading indeed probably the only - woman in the world in her own line . I did not immediately recognize her as an old acquaintance . Studying from across - the aisle her serene , lovely face , I thought : ' What a charming ...
... become the leading indeed probably the only - woman in the world in her own line . I did not immediately recognize her as an old acquaintance . Studying from across - the aisle her serene , lovely face , I thought : ' What a charming ...
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