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...give us glimpses into the life of the people. But the private inscriptions show us clearly the family life of the Greeks. Sometimes the occupation of the person is recorded in the epitaph. Where possible, the happy side of life is touched on. They glory in living to a ripe old age. Only occasionally do we find humorous inscriptions. The Greeks accepted life as they found it, without pessimism, taking everything which happened uncomplainingly...
...Granted, however, that such men are not representative, but rather the results of an over-ripe culture, there are many men of education, true, high-minded and of Christian ideals, who believe that Christ and His church are at the basis of our civilization, who sympathize with Christian truth, who feel that ideally the church is the stronghold of the highest types of character, but who do not practically turn hand, voice or life to the sustaining of the Christian church of today...
Professor Bartlett, another of the Faculty members of this committee, expressed the same desire not to speak at the present time. Dean Briggs and Professor Shaler also thought the time not yet ripe for speech...
...altogether too radical. The legislation proposed will strike the mind of the average student as antagonistic rather than sympathetic. We feel that any reform in athletics, to be satisfactory, must win the hearty support of the solid, sensible, unprejudiced students. We believe, however, that the time is now ripe for such reform and that it is therefore particularly unfortunate that the method which President Eliot proses will not secure itself more general support...
...results of Extension teaching in England. He said that the average citizen, who has to pursue his education collaterally with the work of life, is ready and ripe for instruction in the higher branches of learning, and that the work done by them in the Extension classes and the examinations undergone by them would, in the case of some of the students, compare favorably even with the most advanced instruction in England, such for example as the Indian Civil Service open competitive examination...