Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Graduate School is one of a small number of places of study in America at which young men can prepare themselves in a thorough manner for a lifework of higher scholarship...
...eagerly striven for by many, brings with it contention. Many pursue knowledge, but the enlightenment of the intellect does little to secure the happiness of men. Science tries in vain to solve these problems of life upon which our happiness is dependent. Science must look to a higher power in order to solve them...
...time of the higher Renaissance in Florence, he said, was the sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating...
...things which all men may recognize as not impossible typically. In this study we can not help arriving at some high opinion of the worth and value of identity. The voice, face, manner, bearing, and accent of others are all easy of imitation; but it is when the higher qualities belonging to an individuality have to be reproduced that the imitator's difficulty begins and his weakness is exposed. With the true artist the internal force is the first requisite,- the external appearance being merely the medium through which this is made known to others...
...college students will have in their lives to deal with men. They are to essay the higher planes of life. To them the study of mankind must be an important one, for whether they have to make or keep fortunes, their individualities must be pitted against those of others; and in the struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst...