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Pagina 33
Still more disastrous will be the effect on the life of Oxford , which is now not only a place of learning but a school of manliness . People seem to me to be playing with this subject . They say that a few women will make no difference ...
Still more disastrous will be the effect on the life of Oxford , which is now not only a place of learning but a school of manliness . People seem to me to be playing with this subject . They say that a few women will make no difference ...
Pagina 58
The apparent effect of Mr. Welldon's resolution , if carried at the Head Masters ' Conference , would have been , as ' An Oxford Tutor ' said in your columns , to relieve non - classical students of a mini- mum of Greek in the ...
The apparent effect of Mr. Welldon's resolution , if carried at the Head Masters ' Conference , would have been , as ' An Oxford Tutor ' said in your columns , to relieve non - classical students of a mini- mum of Greek in the ...
Pagina 59
The real object , therefore , of Mr. Welldon , is to diminish the study of Greek at school ; the real effect would be to diminish the study of Greek at the Universities . For schools are nurseries of Uni- versities , and Universities ...
The real object , therefore , of Mr. Welldon , is to diminish the study of Greek at school ; the real effect would be to diminish the study of Greek at the Universities . For schools are nurseries of Uni- versities , and Universities ...
Pagina 63
The point of ancient Atomism was that nature , by its forces of gravity and impact of atoms , spontaneously or neces- sarily accounts for the production of the effects usually ascribed to Divine power . Hence Lord Kel- vin was obviously ...
The point of ancient Atomism was that nature , by its forces of gravity and impact of atoms , spontaneously or neces- sarily accounts for the production of the effects usually ascribed to Divine power . Hence Lord Kel- vin was obviously ...
Pagina 66
... and to gather disciples into his own department , where he overteaches them in one direction ; as if the object of education were to make pedants , not men of the world . This specialism has already pro- duced disastrous effects .
... and to gather disciples into his own department , where he overteaches them in one direction ; as if the object of education were to make pedants , not men of the world . This specialism has already pro- duced disastrous effects .
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Pagina 134 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1.
Pagina 189 - We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...
Pagina 254 - THE views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
Pagina 279 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Pagina 36 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes. Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face.
Pagina 279 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 274 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Pagina 208 - might be rendered another source of revenue more abundant, perhaps, than all...
Pagina 279 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 121 - ... historical or philosophical. There is a narrow professional spirit which may grow up among men of science, just as it does among men who practise any other special business. But surely a University is the very place where we should be able to overcome this tendency of men to become, as it were, granulated into small worlds, which are all the more worldly for their very smallness. We lose the advantage of having men of varied pursuits collected into one body, if we do not endeavour to imbibe some...