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Page 42 - But a University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.
Page i - European Schools; OR, WHAT I SAW IN THE SCHOOLS OF GERMANY, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND. By LR KLEMM, Ph. D., Principal of the Cincinnati Technical School.
Page 58 - I was under disadvantages as compared with those who came from other places ; on the contrary, the tone of young men at the University, whether they came from Winchester, Eton, Rugby, Harrow, or wherever else, was universally irreligious. A religious under-graduate was very rare, very much laughed at when he appeared ; and I think I may confidently say, hardly to be found among public-school men ; or, if this be too strongly said, hardly to be found, except in cases where private and domestic training,...
Page i - Authorized Translation from the second French edition, by J. RUSSELL, BA With an Introduction by Rev. RH QUICK, MA $1.50.
Page 14 - ... pseudonymous Philander von Sittewald : f " Meanwhile I saw a great chamber ; a common lodging-room, or museum, or study, or beer-shop, or wine-shop, or ball-room, or harlot's establishment, &c., &c. In truth I cannot really say what it was, for I saw in it all these things. It was swarming full of students. The most eminent of them sat at a table, and drank to each other until their eyes turned in their heads like those of a stuck calf. One drank to another from a dish — out of a shoe ; one...
Page viii - ... visible by a cap and gown, and by a college life in a system of barracks (college dormitories), rather than in the family life adopted by his civilization. All culture begins with this first estrangement of the immature individual toward his immediate surroundings, material and spiritual, and with the effort to make himself at home in what is at first strange and different, but which he will soon render familiar by study and practice. He will begin to see, step by step, his own rationality as...
Page vii - ... study of Confucius and Mencius in Chinese education, the study of the code of Manu, the Vedas, the Hitopadesa, among the East Indians, the study of the Koran among the Mohammedans, and the study of the Bible and of Greek and Latin classics among modern Christian nations. It is a sort of vicarious living over again of the far-off world—far off from the present and offering an earlier epoch of the nation's civilization.