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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...World can be as easily as briefly stated: there is none. A widely read German history of civilization says this about American scholarship: American universities are hardly more than ordinary schools in Germany. It is true they receive large sums of money from rich men; but they cannot attain to anything, because the institutions either remain under the control of the Church, or the professors are appointed on account of their political or personal connections, not on account of their knowledge. The professors therefore have, naturally, more interest in money making than in the advancement of science. Not a single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Productive Scholarship in America." | 5/2/1901 | See Source »

...comprehension of theory and real science. He has not yet had time to understand that scholarly truth is like a beautiful woman, who should be loved and honored for her own sake, while it is a degradation to value her only for her practical services: a Yankee brain today cannot grasp that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Productive Scholarship in America." | 5/2/1901 | See Source »

...frequent slides of rock and rubbish are unmistakable signs of the slow wearing process, which often trims sharp peaks into regular slopes. Glaciers which are characteristic of these lofty mountains, wear broad basins in valleys, forcing aside mountain spurs which they cannot go around. The Alaskan glaciers show how ice-fields may enter the sea, carrying down masses of debris and rounding off rock formations in the descent. Sometimes subdued, are depressed and buried in the sea, often to a great depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountains Young and Old | 3/28/1901 | See Source »

...punishment, and torture is sometimes resorted to as a means of securing evidence. It must be said, however, that such cruelty is not characteristic of the nation. Another vice of the Chinese is the opium habit, which is much more serious than drunkenness, because those addicted to it cannot rid themselves of the habit. The existence of these and many other vices may be traced to the practice of Idolatry, which presents very low ideals it is believed that Christianity can uplift the Chinese people from their present low state, but the number of missionaries now in China is extremely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missionary Work in China | 3/28/1901 | See Source »

...facts means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here is where intercollegiate debating may prove something of a nuisance. It exists for the purpose of winning something, and therefore the undergraduate--not the coaches--wonders whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball back with double passes, and in his course work he comes to you with a brief in which he has tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that you see his little game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Debating | 3/26/1901 | See Source »

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