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...college "celebrity." A professor may become that figure by the possession of a unique personality or of a few striking idiosyncrasies only. Or he may radiate from his every glance and gesture a powerful and independent spirit, apt more to excite awe than to invite friendly or filial attachment. But whatever the qualities that go to the making of a college "celebrity" they are sure to be of the kind that compel affection. Such a man teaches not alone by word of mouth. He instructs as much by his example of manhood, by the standard of his tastes...
Lectures in form, in substance, and in English a delight and an inspiration,--this is the memory left by the courses in Philosophy of Professor Palmer. Those who care for literature know he has enriched it with his biographies, essays, translations, and, above all, his work of almost filial piety, the definitive edition of George Herbert. His friends think of his fearlessness of opinion, his idealism and his power of drawing only what is their best from the men and women in whom he has once put faith. Today hundreds of us who have been his pupils, readers and friends...
...long ago an imperial rescript of education was issued to serve as a fundamental basis on which to build the superstructure of all Japanese training. The cardinal virtues of loyalty and filial piety are laid down as the ground-work. At present a crisis is imminent in the Japanese field of education. The old social system based upon the idea that the national unit was the family is now at variance with the more modern idea of the individual as the national unit. Keeping in mind the fundamental characteristics which have made it possible for the nation to receive...
...anniversary of that day; he was missed by his hosts; and it was afterward discovered that Johnson had driven to Uttoxeter and stood bareheaded in the rain for an entire hour before the bookstall which had been his father's. This incident illustrates at once Johnson's filial tenderness and a streak of characteristic superstition, which took an emblematic form of penance...
...conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter the spirit life in full possession of her bodily faculties...