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...works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned German so as to read it with any facility. But much which others learned with toil seemed to come to him by intuition, and many things in his books which might appear to be borrowed from others are really original with him. He was as eccentric in his teaching as in everything else that he did. He had much of the Socratic way of asking questions to show...
...brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact no man should ever knit...
Many schools have been established with the end in view of fitting aspirants for the stage, but, under their training, it is only by talent and years of assiduous toil that a pupil is prepared to appear before a critical audience and win applause and fame. It has remained for our own university to solve all doubts, and found a school in which the dull and talented alike are fitted in a week, sometimes even less, for exalted positions on the stage. Of the peculiar fitness of Boston for a debut, on account of its well known "cultured" audiences, nothing...
...ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve out recreation and enjoyment as the alternative and the reward of our professional toil. Now, the entire tone and character of this life outside the profession are profoundly dependent on the compass of our early studies. He that leaves the school for the shop at thirteen is on one platform. He that spends the years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge...
...scientific expedition returned from a most successful trip. They rode in the saddle over 1,000 miles - through Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Dakota. They bring back more than 3,000 pounds of fossils gathered in the various places, as the result of their toil. [Princetonian...