Word: careers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...often the case, overlook it entirely. The result is lamentable. At his most susceptible age, the age at which he is most imitative, all the influences of example seem to be in favor of neglect of mental development for physical. The boy naturally hopes for a successful college career, and the only road to success seems to him to be through athletic achievement. To this, therefore, he devotes all his energies, to the great detriment of his mental training...
...Princeton freshmen. The attempt, we hope, will meet with success. The freshman nine has always been a most valuable means of developing material for the University team, and the latter would be sure to suffer if the ball players in Ninety-eight were discouraged at the beginning of their career. This point of view, however, makes too little of the disappointment to the freshmen themselves. The records made against Yale are always an important feature in the athletic history of a class, and it is hard for Ninety-eight to be deprived of even the chance of recording a victory...
After sketching Dr. Whitney's early career, Professor Lanman told of how, after graduating with distinction from Williams College, he had become interested in the study of Indology and resolved to make it his life work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar...
...essay on Shelley, which gives less pleasure to the friends of Shelley. Arnold was an ideal educator. He liked to go about among the schools, and he was ever on the lookout for defects in the methods of teaching. He made the greatest mistake of his critical career when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says of himself that there was in him a good, definite streak of the Philistine. Yet we should not dwell too much upon the mistakes of a man so full of generous enthusiasm...
...several seasons Mr. Eugene Ysaye has been a conspicuous figure in the music centres of Europe, where he is recognized as the successor of the great Wieniawski, with whom he studied and many of whose characteristics he possesses. The short career of this young Belgian violinist has been one of uninterrupted success, and his advent in this country has aroused an interest hardly equalled by that of any of the great artists who have visited America in the last decade...