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...Honour thy father and thy mother...
...concentration involved in taking a final Honour course is not very straitlaced, as Dr. Brinton's own example shows. The much abused word "history" includes economics, political philosophy and constitutional law; and in practice a wide knowledge of the literature and art of the periods studied is expected and catered for by the examiners. On the other hand, the study of botany together with biblical exegesis and Roman law is discouraged as not conducive to assimilation by the intellect whereby men see life steadly and see it whole...
...current among us. Many Oxford tutors do set up final examinations as a goal in themselves. Their pupils are not left in a sort of philosophic anarchy until the final examinations. They are kept to the line by the "collections" set by the colleges, and their work in each honour school is rigorously prescribed even to the "set" books. Grades are not known, for the tutors mark their dress rehearsal examination in a complicated way--Alpha, Alpha Beta, Beta Alpha, Beta, or satis, non satis, vix satis, vix vix satis. Some of the lectures are very close to our condemned...
...generally admitted that the future of civilization depends on the intelligent co-operation of the English-speaking peoples. Intelligent co-operation connotes some sort of knowledge and understanding of the other fellow's circumstances and point of view. That great American, whose memory every Englishman delights to honour, Walter H. Page, wrote in a letter published in his biography: "The ignorance, each of the other (i. e. the American and English nations) is beyond all belief." Strong, unqualified words coming from a man in the best position to form a sound judgment. Not one man in 1000 of either nation...
...extraordinarily bad things as well as extraordinarily good. The predominance of the latter has won him his own assured niche in contemporary letters. Among his books: Exton Manor, The Squire's Daughter, The Honour of the Clintons, The Greatest of These, Anthony Dare (to which | The Education is a sequel...