If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the
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A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
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The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
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Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers.. It is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.
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University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers.. And the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.
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(Recited by Dr. George Washington Carver during his commencement address at Selma University, Selma Alabama on May 27, 1942)
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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
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I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'
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It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition.. Whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it.
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Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.
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The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
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If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
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There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university.. A place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
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