School & Society, Volume 7

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James McKeen Cattell
Society for the Advancement of Education, 1918 - Education

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Page 160 - But where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 362 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth...
Page 361 - Hampshire, in the year 1769, is a contract within the meaning of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that no State shall make any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
Page 293 - God rest you, happy gentlemen, Who laid your good lives down, Who took the khaki and the gun Instead of cap and gown. God bring you to a fairer place Than even Oxford town.
Page 39 - designed to hold, in relation to girls' schools and home teaching, a position analogous to that occupied by the Universities towards the public schools for boys".
Page 429 - Hereafter no member of the military service disabled in line of duty, even though not expected to return to duty, will be discharged from service until he has attained complete recovery or as complete recovery as it is to be expected that he will attain when the nature of his disability is considered.
Page 265 - They all descended on the other side of the mountains, and wound away through broad plains and by populous cities. But the clouds were drawn so constantly to the snowy hills, and rested so softly in the circular hollow, that, in time of drought and heat, when all the country round was burnt...
Page 185 - For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.
Page 510 - Quarter on the same basis as during the other quarters of the academic year. The undergraduate colleges, the graduate schools, and the professional schools provide courses in Art*, Literature, Science, Commerce and Administration, Law, Medicine, Education, and Divinity.
Page 142 - What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this city, should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushel...

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