American Colleges: Their Students and WorkG. P. Putnam's, 1878 - 210 páginas |
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Página 1 - Every scholar, that on proof is found able to read the originals of the Old and New Testament into the Latin tongue, and to resolve them logically, withal being of godly life and conversation, and at any public act hath the approbation of the Overseers and Master of the College, is fit to be dignified with his first degree.
Página 137 - It seems to me that there never was a fact proved by a larger mass of evidence, or a more unvaried experience than this; — that men, who distinguish themselves in their youth above their contemporaries, v almost always keep to the end of their lives the start which they have gained.
Página 174 - And the present civilization tends so strongly to make the power of persons acting in masses the only substantial power in society, that there never was more necessity for surrounding individual independence of thought, speech, and conduct, with the most powerful defences, in order to maintain that originality of mind and individuality of character, which are the only source of any real progress, and of most of the qualities which make the human race much superior to any herd of animals. Hence it...
Página 138 - Montague and St John to those of Canning and Peel. Look to India. The ablest man who ever governed India was Warren Hastings, and was he not in the first rank at Westminster ? The ablest civil servant I ever knew in India was Sir Charles Metcalfe, and was he not of the first standing at Eton ? The most eminent member of the aristocracy who ever governed India was Lord Wellesley. What was his Eton reputation? what was his Oxford reputation?
Página 167 - Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal ; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to preservation.
Página 138 - Has it not always been the case, that the men who were first in the competition of the schools have been the first in the competition of life?
Página 166 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Página 56 - They shall eschew all profanation of God's holy name, attributes, word, ordinances, and times of worship ; and study, with reverence and love, carefully to retain God and his truth in their minds.
Página 53 - The American graduate who has been accustomed to find even among irreligious men a tolerable standard of morality, and an ingenuous shame in relation to certain subjects, is utterly confounded at the amount of open profligacy going on all around him at an English university; a profligacy not confined to the 'rowing' set, but including many of the reading men, and not altogether sparing those in authority.
Página 41 - Religion," writes one who was then a member of the college, "was connected with the college only in the person of President McKeen. He was a Christian, courteous, accessible, venerable, and universally beloved : but what could this avail, when, in each college room, there was a side-board sparkling with wines and stronger stimulants?" Again, in the year 1811, under President Appleton, during one term, there was not a student who was a professor of religion. "The greater part of the students appear...