The Freshman and His College: A College ManualD. C. Heath & Company, 1913 - 156 páginas |
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... never to have come to college . The weeding out of such students is a process painful to all concerned . Through no fault of his own , a student may have come with poor preparation . He may be handi- capped because he has to make his ...
... never to have come to college . The weeding out of such students is a process painful to all concerned . Through no fault of his own , a student may have come with poor preparation . He may be handi- capped because he has to make his ...
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... never change his ways . But he may readily do so ; for he is at an age when habits are extremely easy to take on or to lay off . His sense - impres- sions are so vivid and his nerve - tissue so plastic that he can remake himself into ...
... never change his ways . But he may readily do so ; for he is at an age when habits are extremely easy to take on or to lay off . His sense - impres- sions are so vivid and his nerve - tissue so plastic that he can remake himself into ...
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... never except as a practice in discipline , or in case of an honest exigency . And examinations are not without their solid benefits to the serious student . They give training in analysis and proportion ; they compel one to discriminate ...
... never except as a practice in discipline , or in case of an honest exigency . And examinations are not without their solid benefits to the serious student . They give training in analysis and proportion ; they compel one to discriminate ...
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... never be ? In all our colleges we are taught that the athlete must not break training rules . The pitcher who smokes a ciga- rette gives away the game . The punter who dances loses the goal , the sprinter who takes a convivial glass of ...
... never be ? In all our colleges we are taught that the athlete must not break training rules . The pitcher who smokes a ciga- rette gives away the game . The punter who dances loses the goal , the sprinter who takes a convivial glass of ...
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... not escape . It is well for the world that in most of us , by the age of thirty , the character has set like plaster , and will never soften again . If the period between twenty and thirty is the critical 34 The Principle of Habit.
... not escape . It is well for the world that in most of us , by the age of thirty , the character has set like plaster , and will never soften again . If the period between twenty and thirty is the critical 34 The Principle of Habit.
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acquaintance ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN American Arminian become believe brain CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT college athletics college course course of study cross-country running cultivated culture DAVID STARR JORDAN demands discipline element engineering essential experience fact faculty feeling field FRANCIS CUMMINS Freshman fundamental give graduates habits higher education human idea ideal idleness imagination institutions intellectual interest JOHN GRIER HIBBEN kind knowledge La Bête Humaine learned Leland Stanford liberal college liberal education literature living matter means ment mental merely method mind moral Nassau Hall nature nerve-cells never one's passion philosophy phrase play possible practice President principle problems profes professional school Professor scholar scholarship scientific scientific method sense small college social special permission spirit student task teachers teaching things thought tion true truth WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE worth young youth
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Página 34 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Página 148 - He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best.
Página 38 - A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Página 39 - character,' as JS Mill says, 'is a completely fashioned will'; and a will, in the sense in which he means it, is an aggregate of tendencies to act in a firm and prompt and definite way upon all the principal emergencies of life. A tendency to act only becomes effectively ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the actions actually occur, and the brain 'grows
Página 107 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order...
Página 147 - HENCE it is that it is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal nature: like an easy...
Página 51 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Página 148 - He has too much good sense to be affronted at insults, he is too well employed to remember injuries and too indolent to bear malice. He is patient, forbearing, and resigned, on philosophical principles; he submits to pain because it is inevitable, to bereavement because it is irreparable, and to death because _ it _ is his destiny.
Página 147 - Hence it is that it is almost a definition of a gentleman, to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined, and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him ; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal...
Página 38 - The actual presence of the practical opportunity alone furnishes the fulcrum upon which the lever can rest, by means of which the moral will may multiply its strength, and raise itself aloft. He who has no solid ground to press against will never get beyond the stage of empty gesture-making.