Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leading colleges being as low as, or inferior to it in this regard. The attitude of the faculty toward the students in their methods of government was condemned. The present marking system and the school-boy treatment of the students were wrong. The committee pays a tribute to the genius and ability of President White, yet expresses disapproval of his absence from the university, his giving so much time to political reforms and distributing his energies and those of the university over too large a field. All this experience of Cornell and her present troubles are of value in showing...
...glories of England. Its ancient foundations have been enriched with the wealth of the kingdom. The beauty of its lawns, the splendor of its buildings, the extent of its libraries, the richness of its scientific apparatus, and the scenes which the presence of genius has made forever illustrious inspire every intelligent visitor with feelings of profound admiration. The University of Cambridge, with all its resources of material equipment and liberal discipline, is one of the great forces which are molding the national life and shaping the destinies of England. But the greatness of this university has been the slow growth...
...that if there was always plenty of talent at Eton, able editors were as scarce there as elsewhere. The only three school periodicals which stand out as exceptionally good - the Microcosm, the Etonian, and the Miscellany - were edited by boys who possessed great firmness of character as well as genius and judgment. Canning, Mackworth, Pread, and Gladstone all knew how to recruit a staff, keep it up to the best standard of work, and prevent its members from falling out. If he had not become a statesman he might have done wonders in conducting a London daily newspaper...
...Genius," says an English paper, apropos of the election of Ruskin to the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford, "Genius is not an over-common quality in the occupants of professional chairs...
...among the people; they must accept this fact modestly, but surely, else they should not come here to spend three or four of the most valuable years of their lives. For some men there need be no struggle to decide what profession to select; they are born with a genius for some specially, whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life...