 | Harvard University - 1846 - 72 pàgines
...will no doubt hereafter, as heretofore, be cases of persons — they may be a considerable proportion of those educated at our universities — who complain...statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to be derived in his peculiar pursuit from these neglected... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pàgines
...may be a considerable proportion of those educated at our universities — who complain that tlieir youth was passed in studies which have afterwards...statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to be derived in his peculiar pursuit from these neglected... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pàgines
...in studies which have afterwards rielded no fruit. But the true ground of complaint ought generally, suspect, to be rather a matter of self-reproach. It...statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to be derived in his peculiar pursuit from these neglected... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pàgines
...will, no doubt, hereafter, as heretofore, be cases of persons — they may be a considerable proportion of those educated at our universities — who complain...statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to be derived in his peculiar pursuit from these neglected... | |
 | 1847 - 636 pàgines
...self-reproach. It is not that the studies pursued at the university are of no use in life, but that we make ao use of them. The Latin and Greek— to instance in...often thrown aside as useless ; but is the lawyer, the stalesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage... | |
 | 1846 - 660 pàgines
...and Greek are indeed often thrown aside — (after completing the prescribed course in college) — as useless; but is the lawyer, the statesman, the preacher, the medical practitioner, or teacher, quite sure that there is no advantage to be derived in his peculiar pursuit from these neglected... | |
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... yielded no fruit. But the true ground of complaint ought generally, I suspect, to be rather a matter of self-reproach. It is not that the studies pursued at the university are of no use in life, but that we make no use of them. The Latin and Greek... 