Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thank you for the greeting. You do not know what a change this is for me; giving up the pleasant life that I have thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas...
...know how great a change this will be in my life here. When a man has been in one work for forty years with one ideal, it is a great change to find he can no longer work officially for that ideal. It does not, however, change his love, and I expect to have many opportunities to testify to this love. I hope you don't think the change in administration means that the ideals of the University will change. Its ideals will remain the same and I hope your love will also remain. It is a great thing...
...Eliot's term was rapidly drawing to an end, we can hardly believe that the event has taken place. But today there is a new hand at the helm, and the man who has had the control of affairs at Harvard for forty years has given up his active work. So much has been said of President Eliot in the last few months that we are appalled at the task of trying to express our opinion of him in anything like original words. Public officials here and in foreign countries, newspapers all over the world, and private citizens without number...
...College in 1869, says Professor Kuehnemann (who evidently has only the formal instruction in view), was like a German gymnasium, surrounded by a group of professional schools with low standards of admission and "merely practical aims." The work of President Eliot, he continues, has consisted in turning these schools into places for graduate and theoretical study; in leading the College from "the easy-going pursuit of prescribed courses" and "the drill system" to "a thoroughly scholarly training, befitting the dignity and importance of the learned professions"; and finally, in inducing the preparatory schools to raise their standards, diversify their teaching...
...other hand it passes over many things which belong to the true inwardness of the situation and which we think essential to the life and value of the place. But it is impressive to be reminded of what have been the national and humane ideals behind President Eliot's work. Professor Kuehnemann has presented these ideals fairly and enthusiastically. The presentation would gain if we could translate the German English back into his real German. Professor Kuehnemann misses in President Eliot "what might remind us of Kant," and he, or his translator, supplies it abundantly. Yet the exotic style marks...