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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...r, the students niiglit be duly credited with double cuts at all times. He further ex- plained that Johnson, who tried to <!oncoal KoUey's absence, ha... ...lry such as to make the continuntiun of athletic relations between the two colleges inadvisable." The Williams athletic council was not informed of th... ...surrounding the affair has been received by the Williams athletic council. Furthermore, the fact that Dartmouth should have failed to have commuuicate... ...eral ajjirit of good fellowship which per- vaded the relations between the colleges even as late as the visit of the Dartmouth vaudeville oomijany in ... ...inah" Joliiis Glee and Mandolin Clubs (b) PART II 1 ''Gn the Rocky Road to Dublin" E. R. Ephraim Mandolin Club 2 Solo—"I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby" ... .... Another great mistake is that we misinterpret the meaning of a practical education. Practical ed- ucation is an education which fits a man to lire; ... ... Williams. Entering upon the duties of president with little experience in educational matters, Dr. Hopkins easily showed that his greater as- set was...

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...erpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an ...

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...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...l lifted, his head thrust down between them, and his keen bright eye fixed on me; then he threw out two or three more insults, which I could not under... ...until he be- lieved he could accurately translate any remark which they made. This was Jim Baker. According to Jim Baker, some ani- mals have only a l... ...lecture-courses upon spe- cialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matt... ...comradeship between the corps was not permitted. At intervals the presidents of the five corps have a cold official intercourse with each other, but n... ..., his renown spreads to other universities. He is invited to Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to... ...lation for a year. Munich was always present with her 33 deaths in each 1,000 of her population (yearly average), Chicago was as constant with her 15 ... ... cities reported in the German tables: Chicago, deaths in 1,000 population annually, 16; Phila- delphia, 18; St. Louis, 18; San Francisco, 19; New Yor...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...7 CHAPTER XVIII: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ............................................................................................... 292 CHAPTER XIX: EDUCATION ................................................................................................................... 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON ............................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ............................................................ 292 CHAPTER XIX: EDUCATION..................................................................... ...r to others. It is a work which some man will do who has earned a right by education, study, and success to rank himself among the political sages of ... ... the power of secession whenever they might think fit to secede; and it is further alleged that President after President, for years back, has unduly ... ...he wharves which have been prepared for her—and of which I will say a word further by-and-by—are joined to, and in fact, are a portion of, the station... ...e can be said for Osgoode Hall, whereas the exterior of the Four Courts in Dublin is very fine; but as an interior, the temple of Themis at Toronto be... ... The expense of education at Harvard College is not much lower than at our colleges; with us there are, no doubt, more men who are absolutely extravag... ...ored, delicious, medieval life which lends so much grace and beauty to our colleges. There are no gates, no porter’s lodges, no butteries, no halls, n...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... authorities in the chapter on the biological problem, and to books in the educational chapter, the lacunar quality of his reading and knowledge is on... ...a practi- cal way of social stratification, who has concerned himself with education and aspired to creative art, may claim in his very amateurishness... ...most power of such minds as ours. Every day of life drives that conviction further home. And it is possible to maintain that in perhaps quite a great ... ...ls, while we leave hu- manity to mate in the most heedless manner, and if, further, the whole world, promising obedience, were to ask these two to gat... ...56 and 1760, 10,534 children out of 14,934 received, 61 H G Wells and the Dublin Foundling Hospital (suppressed in 1835) had a mortality of eighty pe... ...s the most necessary and hopeful of mental processes. Our Universities and Colleges are still but imper- fectly aware of the recent invention of the P... ...ace. The fact remains that the normal curriculum of our higher schools and colleges is a pointless non-educational miscellany, and the average graduat...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...e’s wisdom, on the other hand, can be traced to Shakspeare’s brain, and no further, although he has bor- rowed the plots of his plays. Who lent Chauce... ... the rank of men of the world, ver. 135. And some reason for it, ver. 140. Education alters the nature, or at least character of many, ver. 149. Ac- t... ...tronger effort of his power, And justly set the gem above the flower. ’Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s incli... ...day, Whose ghost yet shivering on Cocytus’ sand Expects its passage to the further strand: 420 Let the pale sire revisit Thebes... ...gs, In silks, in crapes, in garters, and in rags, From drawing-rooms, from colleges, from garrets, On horse, on foot, in hacks, and gilded chariots: A... ...FIVE FIRST IMPERFECT EDI- TIONS OF THE DUNCIAD, IN THREE BOOKS, PRINTED AT DUBLIN AND LONDON, IN OC- TAVO AND DUODECIMO, 1727. THE PUBLISHER TO THE RE... ...: V ol. 2 398 ‘The streams:’ the River Cam, running by the walls of these colleges, which are particularly famous for their skill in disputation.—P ....

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

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....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...kill in speaking and in writing being especially fostered in the system of education which the Jesuits had planned to produce capable men who by voice... ... on an ass’s skin extended. And when, after a victory is gained, the whole city of London is illumi- nated; when the sky is in a blaze with fireworks,... ...rmitting him to suffer so early in His cause, after which he went into the city, where he held forth, and made a great number of converts. The Church ... ... happened that, after a father and mother had taken the utmost care of the education of their children, they were frustrated of all their hopes in an ... ...ey can, find out.” “What have you, then, taught us?” will these people say further; “and to what purpose are so many calculations to tell us what you ... ...t, Filling, with frantic crowds of thinking fools, Those reverend bedlams, colleges, and schools; Borne on whose wings each heavy sot can pierce The l... ...oyment. Mr. Prior was Plenipotentiary. Dr. Swift is Dean of St. Patrick in Dublin, and is more revered in Ireland than the Primate himself. The religi...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ... which we have mentioned. The dinner over, the young men rushed from their colleges, flushed, full-fed, and eager for battle. If the Gown was angry, t... ...nding over him, assumed so terrible a look, that the chasseur declined any further combat. The victory was made known to the house- steward himself, w... ... my transackshns in that railroad. My riding Cob I called very unhaptly my Dublin and Galway. He came 82 Thackeray down with me the other day, and I’... ... nation, a man of spirit and sinew, and Master of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, the gentleman of our establishment confronted the menial, and havin... ... of yellow chalk drawn from her forehead to the tip of her nose (which was further ornamented by an immense glittering nose-ring), her eyelids painted... ...y cries aloud for reforms. The infa- mous universities shall be abolished. Education shall no longer be permitted. A sacred and wholesome inquisition ... ...young men of the schools and the estaminets (cel- ebrated places of public education) allured by the noble words of Prince Napoleon, “Liberty, equalit...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ... are characteristic of only the greatest art. Boswell’s Life of Johnson is further a master- piece of art in that it exerts the vigorous energy of a m... ...deas, lending vitality and significance to everything about him. A part of education and culture is the exten- sion of one’s narrow range of living to... ...le, and grow into the infinite possibilities of it. But the supreme end of education, we are told, is expert discernment in all things—the power to te... ...Greenwich, where he proceeded 48 Boswell’s Life of Johnson in it somewhat further, and used to compose, walking in the Park; but did not stay long en... ...mended him to Earl Gower, who endeavoured to procure for him a degree from Dublin. It was, perhaps, no small disappointment to Johnson that this respe... ... tu- tors are anxious to have their pupils appear well in the college; the colleges are anxious to have their students appear well in the University; ... ....’ Johnson. ‘Nay, there are finer lines in Dryden on this subject:— “For colleges on bounteous Kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend.”’...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...r was a man of some property, and intended to have given his son a liberal education; but he, being idle and worthless, was sent off to sea, and su... ...four hours. It was all about himself, and the Peruvian government, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and th... ...knew that it would not do to cut our shipmates; for, knowing our birth and education, they were a little suspicious that we would try to put on the... ...ins had been spent upon his education which are thrown away, yearly, in our colleges, he would have been a man of great weight in society. Like most ... ... something for himself; for we knew that as the season advanced, and we went further south, we should have no evenings to work in. Friday, Decemb... ...—‘‘Oh, ’vast there!—You don’t know anything about them craft. I’ve seen them colleges, and know the ropes. They keep all such things for curiosities,... ...eir present situation, and sent them forward, saying that he should take no further notice of the matter; but, at the same time, told the carpenter ...