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...architecture as the Bodeleian Library at Oxford. On making inquiries we found, to our satisfaction that the building was open to visitors, and accordingly we availed ourselves of the privilege thus offered, and entered. On every hand we were surrounded by books; books old; books new; books of indeterminate age. Turning to our left, we entered the reading room, where groups of students sat at the tables poring over the reference books.-"grinding," is the term in vogue at Cambridge for this studious pursuit. On either side of the reading room were alcoves, filled to repletion with still more books...
...laboratories erected at Lehigh are said to be the finest in this country and the equal of any in the world. A new course in advanced electricity has been started there to meet the needs of the coming age...
...Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half of the fifteenth century was the age of collecting manuscripts, so that it has been called after him who was the leader of the movement-the age of Poggio. The fall of Constantinople, which brought a fresh supply of exited Greeks to Italy, some laden with manuscripts. gave an additional stimulus to the work. The invention...
...society has reached its maturity. To Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness. For us they are the objects of research and criticism. It would be absurd to educate our boys as if they belonged to the age of the humanists. What we want above all is to make them understand their own world, the people of which they are a part, the life of nature about them, the men among whom they have to make their way. These are the indispensable parts of modern education...
...respect that's due their age...