Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mind any remotest criticism of Harvard nor yet of any other college or university. I was speaking of a general conception of education, or formal training, which prevails in Europe as well as in America. This conception and its application have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that, so far as I can discover, about eight men in ten, on completing their formal education, find the choice of a life work an extremely perplexing problem. This defect, however, is one which neither Harvard nor yet all colleges combined could...
...zest in one's profession, and so forth. For those interests and accomplishments which are not turned to account and given scope in a man's profession constitute a restless though a "silent" partner. For example, let a man who in his boyhood has been devoted to outdoor sports think twice before he chooses an utterly sedentary career, or one who was early impressed and fascinated by the miracles of plant and animal life meditate carefully before he rushes into the more austere delights and the dazzling emoluments of Indic philology. This is in order to secure the participation...
...Holmes recognized the young man's determination and capacity for the business in hand, but he adds, "I think the Corporation and Overseers will have to hold him in a little, or he will want to do too many things at once...
When we speak of the "ironies of history," we usually think of something bitter. Sometimes there are pleasant ironies. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a letter written in 1870, describes the amazement of Harvard College over its new President, who was so different from its preconceived idea of what a college president should...
Junkers and Pan-Germanists now in the saddle in Germany are so drunk with the power gained by their new conquests that they appear to think they can defy all the world. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." --New York Herald...