Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Another essay on "Scholarship," is an investigation into the admitted superiority of the German scholar over the American. Following it is a paper on "Women," with a delightful vein of humor running through it, the purpose of which is to show American women how much they can learn from their German sisters, upon whom they are too apt to look down. The remaining essays are on "The Americans and the Germans," and "Americans Democracy," and are of a more general character...
...among men of all sorts, sincerity, frank speech, straightforward conduct, the absence of deceit. Truth is the motto of him "whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his highest skill." This kind of truth, however, is not the special virtue of the student or of the scholar, and has no more connection with the University than with life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements of opinion in order to put his general theory...
Neither is the scholar under the compulsion of having to decide in short notice. He may and must take his own time for announcing his conclusions...
Truth is the Scholar's virtue; and if he lets his feelings or his devotions to an end--however otherwise desirable--make him neglectful of truth on any occasion, he forfeits, for the occasion at least, his scholarship. Secondly, intemperance is not more necessary to vigorous and successful action than the ill temper, the arrogance, the egotism, the ignorance, by one of which it is generally caused...
...friendship, and few men have had so many friends. He was the most entertaining of companions, and the warmth and openness of his nature attached to him those whom the charm of his intense and vivacious personality had attracted. His death has deprived the University of an eminent scholar and an indefatigable teacher, and his colleagues in this Faculty of an associate whom they regarded with sincere affection...