Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week in some particularly favored "kneipe," where the most palatable beer...
...move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
Does this show a "petty spirit" on the part of the faculty, or is there anything in it which is not well "calculated to" properly "influence the students in a search after truth and knowledge...
...merely clever. It must be acknowledged that in this Puritan part of the world they have given us a new, if not an original point of view; they look upon the universe as a vast storehouse of possible amusements, and read, think and write, not in pursuit of truth, but for diversion. They all have written books; one or two of them have written well: but they are satisfied with their reputation for cleverness, and make no effort to reach anything deeper or higher...
...schools. There is much misapprehension relative to the average ages for entering a university in America and Germany. Many people seem to think that the average is much higher there than here, and that the matureness of the German students is rather attributable to that fact. But the truth of the matter is, that the mean age in Germany is hardly a year above that for entering such colleges as Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. It is in the schools, in the school training therefore, that the great difference lies. Our schools, in the majority of cases, undertake to "prepare...