Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...termination of this brief career, we can only repress the sad thoughts of "what might have been" by remembering with gratitude that so much has been left us, - that the future aspirants for literary distinction in this country will have before them for an example the life of JOHN RICHARD DENNETT...
...good deal of the minuter details of Latin and Greek grammar that he has not retained, while he has probably lost all of his Freshmen mathematics, except a few leading definitions and one or two remarkable propositions. Yet these elements will be of great worth to him in after life, both in his own reading and study, and in the position which as an educated man he may often hold in the oversight of institutions of learning. The drilling of schoolboys in the elements makes deep furrows in the teacher's memory, so that the very things that had grown...
Teaching is also to be valued for the experience of life which it gives, for the discipline of temper which it demands, for the self-dependence and capacity of self-help which it develops, and for the habits of punctuality, order, and method which it creates or confirms. At the same time, the new social relations into which the young teacher is brought can hardly fail to be of value, as an initiation into general society, it may be into society of a high order of intelligence and culture, or if not, into conversance with portions and classes...
...Senior students we have had an eventful life, we have been ferried into the longed-for haven, we have come into the full inheritance of the legacy of our Alma Mater; yet it is suggested to us, not indeed to be ungrateful, but to crowd it back into our hearts, unacknowledged and unexpressed. I do not wish to be guilty of sophism. The article named rather attacks the office of our Chaplain as a mockery of a sacred duty. But such it is not. Though some may laugh, shall we, through fear of them, hesitate to express our thanks openly...
These are poor arguments for some. They presuppose a grain of love for our college bricks and a spark of life still lingering in that poor ghost of a "glass feeling." But I offer them as an appeal to our better feelings...