Word: preceptions
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...enunciated. This danger Harvard has always been able successfully to avoid. It has consistently "given thanks that it is not as other colleges are," chiefly because it has never said so, at least for publication. It has succeeded in maintaining this feeling by means of example, not by precept. The incoming Freshman comes to feel that he has at last reached a grown-up institution and that it is up to him to put away childlike things. Very often his illusions of what a college ought to be are shattered. Gone are the Ralph Henry Barbarism of "frattiness...
...essential part to play in the coming readjustment. Is it idle to think that the hardest and yet the most necessary lesson which must be taught will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace and good will, without having others feel that we are meantime training our young men to fight against--them. And let us not waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have to use, when...
...most prevalent useful qualities in human nature; the former should be used to impel, and the latter to direct, human conduct to the end of utility. Anarchy is a false view of liberty, oligarchy seeks the happiness of only a few, while democracy is an attempt to apply the precept of interest and intelligence. Individualism is required in consumption, and socialism introduction. The latter is best directed by experts. The efficiency of production is constantly being made more perfect by co-operation. Badly applied science combines progress with poverty, and science which is unguided by morals is source...
...peculiar sense, so characteristic of him. I suppose he never met any man without wishing to share with him the grace of his learning, the charm of his wisdom, the light of his knowledge of the world; but this is poorly suggestive of the pervasive influence of his constant precept and example, which only those whose lives it shaped could duly witness...
...first requisite in public speaking, he said, is thorough acquaintance with every phase of the subject. The precept which the young lawyer is most apt to disregard is the importance of knowing his opponent's side of the case with the same thoroughness as his own. Clearness, simplicity of language and conciseness are invaluable qualities in public speaking. The last-named in particular is an indispensable asset in stump speaking. A good rule is to have something to say, say it briefly, and sit down...