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...grand division of the subject, where care and study are not only useful but even absolutely necessary, is closely connected with the question just discussed, but differs from it in one very important point. Then it was a question of selecting, from what was outside, the best. Now the problem is to eradicate, from what is within, the worst. The results tend in the same direction; the processes are distinct. Any little peculiarities must be carefully guarded against. The more amiable they are, the more dangerous they are. Your motto must be 'upward and onward," even at the cost...
Yours, '81."Sept. 12, 1771. Having studied late into the night last eve over that very difficult problem in Euclid, called the pons asinorum, I over-slept myself this morning beyond six o'clock. On this account I was unable to cleanse the shoes of my master F., a Senior, but was obliged to hurry to Chapel. Consequently, when I returned after breakfast, F. called me into his room, and taking down a whip he is wont to use in riding, despite my entreaties, he so belabored my shoulders that I almost fainted. This is the first occasion that...
...York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative a thread of romance which comes to full view and development in the latter part. While the writing is not always as choice in conception and language as might be desired, and while it is not perfectly...
...Professor of Chinese is sent here by a private subscription of American merchants in China. The present problem - "What shall we do with him?" - will be settled at the next meeting of the President and Fellows...
...what was the purpose of the founders of these scholarships? They were wealthy men interested in the cause of education, not in the education of a score or more young men in college, but in education as the power best fitted to benefit society and civilize the world. Their problem was, "How best can we aid that cause?" and their solution of the problem was the depositing of certain sums of money with our University to be used, within certain limits, as men best fitted to judge should decide. To carry out their excellent purpose the recipients of scholarships...