An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph. Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.
Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.
I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.