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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...places this ideal is sought in different ways; at Cornell, for instance, a residence building has been thought necessary. In this University more modest methods have sufficed. It is still too soon for the full effects of the cosmopolitan movement to be evident; it is not too much to say, however, that it will promote the interchange of students between countries and in some measure aid the cause of international harmony...
...venture to say that you expected me to speak to you from the view point of the teacher and not from the view point of that other side of education dealing with the administration of the college. Those who hold the offices of administration, while they are dealing with the art of education, hold, nevertheless, a special position with regard to the profession, just as the judge on the bench holds a special position with regard to the profession of law. When a teacher goes in for administration he degrades both the office to which he succeeds and the profession...
...venture to say that most college men picture their life work in the midst of stirring scenes, striving with might and main among men. There, out in the world where men do things the very vastness of it all stirs the spirits of the young...
...would be a very delightful one, because of this close contact. The boys are there leaning upon you morally, intellectually, socially, in a way that they do not among the older boys, and especially as they do not in our colleges and universities. I do not mean to say that I exalt that dependence, that I feel that there is a great advantage in keeping boys dependent. I realize that the work of the teachers is to make boys independent of them as rapidly as possible, to withdraw themselves just as rapidly as possible from their lives, that they...
...along, the skilful dentist has been able to lesson or prevent many of the acute pains which disorders of the teeth and jaws frequently cause. He can treat successfully inflamed teeth and abscesses in the jaws, both of which are apt to give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount or the intensity of human pain, for pain is an unmixed evil, and whoever abates it for multitudes or for one individual, is a real benefactor. As life advances, dentistry is able to repair the loss of teeth caused by wear, accident...