Word: towers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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More, at the recent regular meeting of the New York alumni they advocated the names of Mr. Charlemange Tower of Philadelphia for one of the vacant places on the board. Prominent men in the west are likely, also, to receive nominations that the list next June may contain names from all sections...
...when he said in one of his lectures: "About this time Goethe fell in love with a rich banker's daughter in New York city." There was a roar from the students, while boots and canes rattled upon the floor like an avalanche of cobble stones in a shot tower. Boyesen covered his crimson face with his hands and turned his back to his class. That lecture was resumed on another...
This is the prevailing danger of democracy, that with its intense sense of the importance of the mass, it spend all its energies in the construction of the nave while the tower remains always unfinished. To guard against this tendency, to throw all its influence against this tendency; is the great mission of this university as of every university with high aims and abilities in the land. The tendency of democracy is to make little of such purposes, to hold in slight regard in comparison with other things the means by which such purposes are attained the colleges...
...essentially undemocratic in their nature, in the sense that the people of England itself are undemocratic,-that they, above all sections of the United States, have always recognized the importance of the higher education and that they have been the chief promoters of it in this country. "Build the tower first; and others will see to it that the nave does not remain untinished." From the founding of Harvard College in the midst of an almost unbroken wilderness until this day of universal education, this has been the experience of New England...
...perhaps such considerations as this of the importance of building the tower first in any system of education as well as in any system of architecture, that offer the best argument in favor of the continued study of Greek as a leading part of the curriculum of American universities,-the study of Greek, that is to say, as representing the best and most liberal culture obtainable. No argument in favor of Greek and its allied theory of a liberal education seems stronger to us than this an argument perfectly abstract in its nature, it is true, and not likely...