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...everywhere. No one is satisfied with anyone, except, now and then oneself. The educational world is introspective and the criticism of the day is a criticism of impatience. Uneasy folk upbraid one another for not achieving that which the demon of an age of externals longs for but will never achieve-cultured calm, a philosophical detachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...graduate, in the intervals of carnival rejoicing, might accuse his Alma Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism. Such things have been. But to upbraid it for including a man of any religion or of none in the administrative board of the corporation - one rubs one's eyes! A "Fellow" is chosen because he is a professional and business man of distinguished ability, because he is a patriotic American and a loyal alumnus. His religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/21/1924 | See Source »

...seeing him in office to vote for him. And as the candidates' personal friends can include only a small number of the students, it is futile to expect the others to vote, and to upbraid them when they do not do so. PHILIP F. SIFF '22, JOSIAH SEGAL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Pessimistic View-Point. | 10/27/1919 | See Source »

...would have been a happy conceit on the part of the class if it had started with its neck, and had broken that first instead of stringing itself out in this provoking manner. And again the generous-spirited man spoke up, and said that they ought not to upbraid the class, if the class had enjoyed it. So they let McClure return once again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAD TALE OF THE CLASS OF 19-. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...able to detect any signs of failing strength - but we do not - in him who has all his life guided us so well and taught us so many never-to-be-forgotten lessons in true wisdom, it would be unmanly and ungenerous to turn, as our critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCOURTEOUS CRITICISM. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

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