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...nourishment, then the true university tradition may perish. The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research institute; the sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team manoenvering under a collegiate banner. On such abnormalities we need not dwell, but I should like to take a few moments to consider the disastrous effects of an over-emphasis of either the liberal arts educational tradition or the element of professional training. This is a real danger at all times. For a university nourished exclusively from either one of these...
Surely interest and deficits shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the House of Roosevelt forever...
...detailed account of his wanderings (and Professor Bolton's), with incidental records of Indian rebellions, church intrigue, disputes with provincial authorities. Not a book to be read hastily, it is nevertheless of cumulative interest to readers who enjoy an abundance of facts on which their imaginations can dwell. And industrious Father Kino and Professor Bolton make a pair of travelers whose exploits are likely to remain in the memory long after the book is finished...
Xerxes listed among his vassals "the Ionians that dwell in the Sea and those that dwell beyond the Sea." This indicates that the tablets were written between 485 B. C., when he mounted the throne, and 480 when, bamboozled by Themistocles, he sent his fleet to be soundly whipped by the Greeks at Salamis. After that his empire fell stagnant and he was finally murdered by a vizier...
...built their towns, for purposes of commerce, on the narrow-valleyed rivers which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation's population in 5% of its area. But in many & many a spring the friendly rivers have turned into roaring engines of destruction, wiped out what they had-helped men to build...