Word: collegee
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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In introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a...
"I venture to say that you expected me to speak to you from the view point of the teacher and not from the view point of that other side of education dealing with the administration of the college. Those who hold the offices of administration, while they are dealing with...
"I venture to say that most college men picture their life work in the midst of stirring scenes, striving with might and main among men. There, out in the world where men do things the very vastness of it all stirs the spirits of the young.
"Now by contrast, how small seems the world of the teacher! Instead of dealing with men, instead of coming into close connection with busy affairs, the teacher seems to be spending his time with books, or with men who have not yet arrived at the stage of doing things. But...
"More and more, as our society develops, the college man is coming into a real and vital relation with the outside world. I need go no further than Harvard itself, and you will see how powerful has been the impression of its professors upon the outside world. My own experience...