Word: plane
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...look forward to our careers, and contrast the great world with the quiet college, we are apt to underestimate the teacher. His life is not what you think it is. In some respects it is better, and in some worse. At any rate, it is on a plane which enables him to develop the best that...
...subject that may interest you, and hold it there until it delivers to you all that is possible to see,--to show up to you all that is within that subject, that man is capable of discovering. There is constantly in the college community a lifting up from plane to plane, higher and higher. The social life combines with the intellectual in such a way as to make the life charming in an especial degree...
...college of the old type possessed a solidarity which enabled it to fulfill that purpose well enough in its time, although on a narrower scale and a lower plane than we aspire to at the present day. It was so small that the students were all well acquainted with one another, or at least with their classmates. They were constantly thrown together, in chapel, in the classroom, in the dining hall, in the college dormitories, in their simple forms of recreation, and they were constantly measuring themselves by one standard in their common occupations. The curriculum, consisting mainly...
Vidit vir prudentissimus oportere homines non modo corporum viribus silvas arare, bestias opporimere feras, Indos barbaros plane superare et dominari, sed mentes hominum, puerorum praecipue, ad res divinas et optimas instituere. Intellexit quoque homines plurimum valere, si mentibus comprehendissent tum quam sapiens et amabilis esset ipse Deus, tum quam pulchro ordine haec rerum natura ab ipso esset creata. Animorum vi vivida sapientes posse, ordine divino intellecto, terram Americanam imperio suo possidere...
...camp will open for the summer on Thursday, June 24, and men will leave on the 9 A. M. train from the North Station on that day. The camp will close on Tuesday, September 7. The following courses will be given: Engineering 4a, Plane and Topographical Surveying, a full course beginning on June 24 and continuing six weeks; Engineering 4c, Geodetic Surveying, a half-course beginning on July 14 and continuing three weeks, open to students who have passed satisfactorily in Engineering 4a in a previous summer; Engineering 4d, Railroad Engineering, a full course beginning August 4 and continuing five...