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Page 33 - Yes, while on earth a thousand discords ring, Man's fitful uproar mingling with his toil, Still do thy sleepless ministers move on, Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting ; Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil, Labourers that shall not fail, when man is gone.
Page 33 - ONE lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity — Of toil unsever'd from tranquillity! Of labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry...
Page 72 - Subject to the formal approval of the trustees^he selects_new members of the faculty, promotes, dismisses them. To the faculty, it is true, there seems to be left the important power to define the requirements for admission to the university and to its degrees, and yet these activities are in a fundamental way directed by the president, since by his word comes growth to this department and atrophy to that. And while his sway is subject to a constitution, and he cannot quite justly be called an autocrat,...
Page 72 - The American university president^ holds a place unique in the history of higher education. He is a ruler responsible to no one whom he governs, and" he holds for an indefinite term the powers of academic life and death.
Page 6 - ... to think in these terms, to study the nature of educational decisions and to invent possible control ' knobs '. This raises many questions because in our system powers of central direction are highly limited and policies are largely aimed at influencing the decisions of the educational authorities and teachers on the one hand and the students on the other.
Page 73 - ... teacher and truthseeker, the office of student. Yet here is the locus of success and failure. No one would claim that the professors are a worthier group of men than our college presidents ; it is not a question of personal rights or jealousy of honors. It is a question of right or wrong to the cause ; and the universities themselves, knowing what is in their charge, should be the last to typify in their own structure the thought that discovering truth and imparting the vital principle whereby...
Page 105 - Just this, then, is the function of the college: to teach in the broadest way the fine art of living, to give the best preparation that organized education can give for entering wisely and unselfishly into the complex personal relations of life, and for furthering unselfishly and efficiently social progress.
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Page 72 - There is thus a marvelous disparity between the rule of states and of their own academies, both here and elsewhere; nor is it easy to see why Europe and America should each be harboring what would seem properly to be sacred only to the other. Still it is possible, would one but look far enough...
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