 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 380 strani
...all that was Italy six hundred years ago ? And if we go back a century, where was Germany unless in Weimar ? Material success is good, but only as the...culture and of a college as its trustee is to maintain high ideals of life and its purpose, to keep trimmed and burning the lamps of that Pharos, built by... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 398 strani
...climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a fingertip, and...of mankind. There is no other, let our candidates Ilatter us as they may. We still make a confusion between huge and great. I know that I am repeating... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 342 strani
...nation's truc success is the amount it has contrihuted to the thought, the moral energy, the intelleetual happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation, of mankind. There is no other, let our eandidates flatter us as they may. We still make a confusion hetween huge and great. I know that I... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 334 strani
...climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a fingertip, and...We still make a confusion between huge and great. 1 know that I am repeating truisms, but they are truisms that need to be repeated in season and out... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1895 - 372 strani
...all that was Italy six hundred years ago ? And if we go back a century, where was Germany unless in Weimar ? Material success is good, but only as the...culture and of a college as its trustee is to maintain high ideals of life and its purpose, to keep trimmed and burning the lamps of that Pharos, built by... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1900 - 1068 strani
...things. The true measure of a nation's success is the amount that it has contributed to the knowledge, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the...other, let our candidates flatter us as they may." If we can have an educational reform that will lift the political ideal of our young people to this... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 490 strani
...only as the necessary preliminary of better things. The measure of a nation's true sua7992 7993 Cess is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the...culture and of a college as its trustee is to maintain high ideals of life and its purpose, to keep trimmed and burning the lamps of that Pharos built by... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1906 - 292 strani
...things. The true measure of a nation's success is the amount that it has contributed to the knowledge, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the...of mankind. There is no other, let our candidates natter us as they may." If we can have an educational reform that will lift the political ideal of... | |
 | 1908 - 572 strani
...prophetic insistence on the true measure of a nation's greatness: "Material success is good," he says, "but only as the necessary preliminary of better things....mankind. There is no other, let our candidates flatter as they may." I am quite unable to understand how a thoughtful American who really loves his country... | |
 | Religious Education Association - 1908 - 328 strani
...at the 25oth Anniversary of Harvard University, might have been taken as the Association's motto: " The measure of a nation's true success is the amount...other, let our candidates flatter us as they may." To this ideal of the national greatness, this Association is committed. Moved, thus, by the abiding... | |
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Weimar ? Material success is good, but only as the necessary preliminary of better things. The measure of a nation's true success is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation... 
