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...docet, discit," Segal will say. "He who teaches, learns." Teaching became his vocation no less than his avocation. The zestful, enthusiastic approach I saw last December had germinated in 1959 and was transplanted to the Yale campus in 1964 when Segal accompanied Eric Havelock, then chairman of the Harvard Classics department, who had been lured by Kingman Brewster to the paradise of New Haven. "I'm tremendously chauvinistic about Harvard. The longer I was at Yale, the more I appreciated Harvard." Yet he admits that there are things about Yale that are better. "The sheer educational system; the fact that...
HERRICK.We know more about almost everything in the universe than we do about the nature of dreams. And yet the reverse of this ought certainly to be true. Experientia docet, says the old proverb; but dreams, which have been the common experience of all, ever since the race began its existence, are as incomprehensible today as though they were phenomena vouchsafed to man but once in a century...
...places upon his desk a tray with decanter of water, tea-spoon, goblet and three lumps (never more) of sugar. The College de France, founded by Francis I. in 1530, was entirely rebuilt at different times between 1611 and 1774, and extended in 1831. Over the entrance the inscription, "Docet Omnia," indicates that its sphere embraces every branch of science and literature. The lectures being of a popular character are open gratis to the public, ladies included...
...bula docet : All is not gold that glitters...
...Tournament of the Athletic Association last Saturday was a success, and the one to-morrow should be as good, if not better. It should be better. Experientia docet. The experience gained last week should be used. The contests of last Saturday began at the hour announced, and there were none of those vexatious delays between them to which we are so much accustomed, yet they did not end until an hour after the time expected. The programme was too long for two hours. Much of the pleasure that would have been taken in the boxing and wrestling was lost because...