Woodrow Wilson: Princeton, 1890-1910Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927 |
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Página 83 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Página 35 - I have no indictment against what science has done : I have only a warning to utter against the atmosphere which has stolen from laboratories into lecture rooms and into the general air of the world at large. Science — our science — is new. It is a child of the nineteenth century. It has transformed the world and owes little debt of obligation to any past age.
Página 150 - Not long ago a gentleman approached me in great excitement just after the entrance examinations. He said we had made a great mistake in not taking so and so from a certain school which he named. "But," I said, "he did not pass the entrance examinations.
Página 275 - ... ourselves to make a home for the spirit of learning: that we reorganize our colleges on the lines of this simple conception, that a college is not only a body of studies but a mode of association; that its courses are only its formal side, its contacts and contagions its realities.
Página 322 - The whole trouble is that Dean West's ideas and ideals are not the ideas and ideals of Princeton.
Página 26 - They can say strong things of their age; for no one expects they will go out and act on them." They are a kind of ticket-of-leave lunatics, from whom no harm is for the moment expected; who seem quiet, but on whose vagaries a practical public must have its eye. For statesmen it is different: they must be thought men of judgment.
Página 16 - That duty demands and requires, that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent ; that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated.
Página 35 - We have not given science too big a place in our education ; but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. We must make the humanities human again ; must recall what manner of men we are ; must turn back once more to the region of practicable ideals.
Página 162 - Gentlemen, if we could get a body of such tutors at Princeton we could transform the place from a place where there are youngsters doing tasks to a place where there are men doing thinking, men who are conversing about the things of thought...
Página 264 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.