Woodrow Wilson: Princeton, 1890-1910Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927 |
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Page 83 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Page 35 - I have no indictment against what science has done : I have only a warning to utter against the atmosphere which has stolen from laboratories into lecture rooms and into the general air of the world at large. Science — our science — is new. It is a child of the nineteenth century. It has transformed the world and owes little debt of obligation to any past age.
Page 275 - ... ourselves to make a home for the spirit of learning: that we reorganize our colleges on the lines of this simple conception, that a college is not only a body of studies but a mode of association; that its courses are only its formal side, its contacts and contagions its realities.
Page 322 - The whole trouble is that Dean West's ideas and ideals are not the ideas and ideals of Princeton.
Page 16 - That duty demands and requires, that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent ; that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated.
Page 35 - We have not given science too big a place in our education ; but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. We must make the humanities human again ; must recall what manner of men we are ; must turn back once more to the region of practicable ideals.
Page 26 - They can say strong things of their age; for no one expects they will go out and act on them." They are a kind of ticket-of-leave lunatics, from whom no harm is for the moment expected; who seem quiet, but on whose vagaries a practical public must have its eye. For statesmen it is different: they must be thought men of judgment.
Page 162 - Gentlemen, if we could get a body of such tutors at Princeton we could transform the place from a place where there are youngsters doing tasks to a place where there are men doing thinking, men who are conversing about the things of thought...
Page 264 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Page 158 - We must supply the synthesis and must see to it that, whatever group of studies the student selects, it shall at least represent the round whole, contain all the elements of modern knowledge, and be itself a complete circle of general subjects.