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...scarcely produced a dozen original poems on which the world sets the most trifling value; while we waste years in thus perniciously fostering idle verbal imitations, and in neglecting the rich fruit of ancient learning for its bitter useless and unwholesome husk-while we thus dwarf many a vigorous intellect, and disgust many a manly mind while a great university, neglecting in large neasure the literature and the philosophy of two leading nations, contents itself with being, in the words of one of its greatest sons, 'a bestower of rewards for schoolboy merit'-while thousands of despairing boys thus waste...
...distinction among men. He was of towering height, of great muscular power, stately and graceful in shape and movement; in his advancing years, of an aspect most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant's anger by advising his people not to comply with that order; for which he was arrested, tried, deposed from the ministry, fined...
...other important institutions richly endowed by large bequests for the express purpose of educating young men of limited means. The course of study necessary to obtain a diploma in some of these is so difficult as to be simply impossible to a boy of ordinary intellect; hence, out of freshman classes of seventy, four or five boys worry through, often with broken health and exhausted energy. Now, if the object of the men who endowed these colleges was to send out yearly a few highly educated scholars, this system is the proper one; but if it was to afford...
...specialties men who only train for one branch of athletics. The best examples of such facts, said Dr. Sargent, were to be seen in the superior physical condition of the men now in training for the general excellence prize. The same rule holds good in matters of the intellect. Variety of studies is an excellent thing. A man who devotes himself to only one or two subjects can hardly be said to be worthy of a college degree...
...present day, and an exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect of the eleventh century were the main causes of this. Two classes of minds at this time divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second...