Fifty Years of History of the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio: 1844-1894Edward Thomson Nelson |
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Page 240 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high.
Page 151 - When I remember all The friends, so linked together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 181 - Nor is this surprising. The prize-takers have too many years the start of the graduate : they have entered for the race invariably in their teens — in the most valuable of all the years for learning anything — from fourteen to twenty.
Page 162 - BE and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty ; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward ; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend, and your daily bread. If you have, in such a course, grown gray with unblenched honour, bless God, and die.
Page 182 - While the college student has been learning a little about the barbarous and petty squabbles of a fardistant past, or trying to master languages which are dead — such knowledge as seems adapted for life upon another planet than this, as far as business affairs are concerned — the future captain of industry is hotly engaged in the school of experience, obtaining the very knowledge required for his future triumphs.
Page 182 - I do not speak of the effect of college education upon young men training for the learned professions : but the almost total absence of the graduate from high position in the business world seems to justify the conclusion that college education as it exists is fatal to success in that domain.
Page 218 - The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.
Page 185 - ... intellect, a disciplined mind, a store of information, and a breadth of grasp, with the fearlessness which it entails, that enable him to catch up with and pass his rival. Hundreds of college graduates within the last five years have begun in the various departments of railway work at the bottom. They were firing on the locomotives, working in the machine shops, switching in the yards, keeping books in the treasurer's office, serving in the freight and passenger departments, and my observation...
Page 181 - Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth who is put under our charge, not a conventional gentleman but a man of culture, a man of intellectual resource, a man of public spirit, a man of refinement, with that good taste which is the conscience of the mind and that conscience which is the good taste of the soul.
Page 18 - ... mathematics, a principal and an assistant in the preparatory school, had been elected a few weeks before. Twenty-nine students presented themselves on the opening day. Dr. WG Williams, who was a member of this first faculty and has continued as a useful and honored member until the present time, says: "From this small number the faculty were able to organize all the college classes below senior, though the representation in the upper classes was very small.