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...sitting under great teachers, but most of all the realization of a constant and solemn relation to this universe. Christianity is simply the sovereign mood--man at his best. The good name of the University is bound up in the willingness of the new men to perpetuate and enrich and make commanding that service here which makes the sovereign mood...
William Touchstone, a London goldsmith, has two daughters who are exactly the opposite in character. Girtred is ambitious to be a lady, while Mildred is contented with her station. Sir Petronel Flash, an adventurous knight without fortune, applies to Touchstone for the hand of Girtred in order to enrich himself by the sale of the land left the young woman by her grandmother. Mrs. Touchstone and Girtred favor the match and the father unwillingly consents to it. Touchstone has two apprentices as dissimilar in character as are his daughters. Quicksilver, the idle prentice, leaves his master to join Sir Flash...
...what must be the hopes of Yale? To enrich, adorn, and make happier and more abundant the life of the nation and of every individual in it, to make the forces of nature contribute more and more to the welfare of man, to so purify and strengthen democracy as to establish it in all Christian countries, and to call the American people in ever clearer tones to that righteousness which alone can exalt a nation...
...island has never been scientifically explored, and no botanist has ever been there, there is every reason for expecting good results. A large proportion of the materials gathered will go to enrich the collection in the University museum...
This list of subjects also sheds some light on an educational question now under discussion-the question of the most natural and most needed additions to the existing programmes of secondary schools. It suggests that in endeavoring to enrich the programmes of secondary schools, and thereby to carry into schools subjects now dealt with by colleges, the selection of the new subjects now dealt with by colleges, should be made from the most elementary and most attractive courses named above. The indication is that English, French, German, History, and Natural Science are the copies which might be most judiciously added...