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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
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Page 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...
Page 190 - I shall be excused for referring to my own individual experience, which has been somewhat varied. The first eight years of my work as a teacher was in the department of the Ancient Languages — Latin, Greek, and Hebrew ; the next eleven, in Mathematics, abstract and applied ; the last eight, in Philosophical and Ethical studies. In all these studies my classes have included young women as well as young men, and I have never observed any difference between them in performance in the recitation. The...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 186 - The students were not aware that any such registration was being made. It may be felt that the young men are less conscientious in pleading ill health than the young women, and this is doubtless true; but I sharply question a young man, and rarely ask any questions of a young woman. I explain the facts in this way. The young men are not accustomed to confinement, and though sun-browned and apparently robust, they do not endure the violent transition as well as women. Study is more congenial to the...
Page 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.