Word: upon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...before the time that the young life has drawn away from the early ideas formed in the home. I assure you that if you were to go into that sort of life, it would be a very delightful one, because of this close contact. The boys are there leaning upon you morally, intellectually, socially, in a way that they do not among the older boys, and especially as they do not in our colleges and universities. I do not mean to say that I exalt that dependence, that I feel that there is a great advantage in keeping boys dependent...
...mean to speak particularly of the relation that exists between pupil and teacher in our colleges, between members of the teaching force, and members of the student body. You, of course, look upon us as people who lie over on the other side of a barrier. You look upon us as people set in authority, more or less interfering with your occupations in undergraduate days, imposing tasks upon you, which perhaps we have a legal right to do, yet you feel that you would be better if we did not interfere. But in such an attitude you are losing...
...More and more, as our society develops, the college man is coming into a real and vital relation with the outside world. I need go no further than Harvard itself, and you will see how powerful has been the impression of its professors upon the outside world. My own experience in Cleveland, some years ago, when as a lawyer, I became interested in civic affairs, confirms this most strongly. Professors may be theoretical, but it is largely by reason of the fact that they are unhampered by many of the things that hamper men in other relations of life, that...
...going into law, or medicine, realize, even while they are at college, that there are restrictions placed upon them by custom, if not by law, which require preparation in a very special way. This is in every way of benefit to the community, I admit, but he who goes into the profession of teaching goes into it as he himself sees fit. He studies what is of interest to him, and he teaches this when he gets out into the world. He is free, in a sense that no other professional man is. If he wishes to go into public...
...There are certain inward satisfactions that have been revealed to me in the few years I have been in educational circles. In undergraduate life, the supreme pleasure is to obtain such a control of the mind, that will enable you to turn upon any subject that may interest you, and hold it there until it delivers to you all that is possible to see,--to show up to you all that is within that subject, that man is capable of discovering. There is constantly in the college community a lifting up from plane to plane, higher and higher. The social...