College Life, Its Conditions and Problems: A Selection of Essays for Use in College Writing CoursesMaurice Garland Fulton In this volume, intended primarily for use in English composition classes, the selections have been chosen chiefly from the writings of college presidents and other educators with a view to covering some of the more improtant questions and problems of the student's personal relation to the various aspects of college life -- intelectual, athletic, and social. |
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... thoughts , which one may adopt and apply to one's own experience , or which one may combat or modify in accordance ... thought out and clearly expressed , stimu- lates to thinking , the ways and means of clear expression as- sume new ...
... thoughts , which one may adopt and apply to one's own experience , or which one may combat or modify in accordance ... thought out and clearly expressed , stimu- lates to thinking , the ways and means of clear expression as- sume new ...
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... thoughts ; and third , the writing by the student on topics suggested by this reading and discussion . The free ... thought- ful student and tend to become one upon which he can enlarge to the limits of his intellectual resources ...
... thoughts ; and third , the writing by the student on topics suggested by this reading and discussion . The free ... thought- ful student and tend to become one upon which he can enlarge to the limits of his intellectual resources ...
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... thoughts , each of which is related to all of the others in a reasonable and necessary way , and all combining to make ... thought . State the substance of the selection under study in a short concise sentence . Has the writer introduced ...
... thoughts , each of which is related to all of the others in a reasonable and necessary way , and all combining to make ... thought . State the substance of the selection under study in a short concise sentence . Has the writer introduced ...
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... thought of the slection ? Do they indicate the sub - divisions which this main idea in- cludes ? Order of Topics . - The main thought of a composition be- ing generally too extended to be discussed all at once , it is divided by the ...
... thought of the slection ? Do they indicate the sub - divisions which this main idea in- cludes ? Order of Topics . - The main thought of a composition be- ing generally too extended to be discussed all at once , it is divided by the ...
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... thought . The one unpar- donable defect in a conclusion is to blur or weaken what precedes . What is the nature of ... thought the mind wearies , and it is important that there should be halting places - points indicated where the reader ...
... thought . The one unpar- donable defect in a conclusion is to blur or weaken what precedes . What is the nature of ... thought the mind wearies , and it is important that there should be halting places - points indicated where the reader ...
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Page 108 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it : but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Page 407 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 160 - Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor ? I tell thee thou foolish philanthropist that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the Cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Page 121 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page 157 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 96 - The civilized world is to be regarded as now being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have for their proper outfit a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special local and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Page 160 - If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, " Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest : have that grace ; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.
Page 167 - The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
Page 104 - the notions of the beginning and the end of the world entertained by our forefathers are no longer credible. It is very certain that the earth is not the chief body in the material universe, and that the world is not subordinated to man's use. It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes.
Page 157 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.