Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of Michigan |
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... undergraduate he meets which building is the uni- versity . When an Oxford man is first asked this , he is pretty sure to answer that there isn't any university ; but as the answer is taken as a rudeness , he soon finds it more ...
... undergraduate he meets which building is the uni- versity . When an Oxford man is first asked this , he is pretty sure to answer that there isn't any university ; but as the answer is taken as a rudeness , he soon finds it more ...
Page 203
... undergraduate , in his religious observ- ances , and in regulating his studies , the college is supreme . To an American the English college is not at first sight a wholly pleasing object . It has walls that one would take to be ...
... undergraduate , in his religious observ- ances , and in regulating his studies , the college is supreme . To an American the English college is not at first sight a wholly pleasing object . It has walls that one would take to be ...
Page 205
... undergraduate life except his studies ; these come later . If a man has any particular gift , athletic or otherwise , the tutor introduces him to the upper class- man he should know , or , when this is not feasible , gives a word to the ...
... undergraduate life except his studies ; these come later . If a man has any particular gift , athletic or otherwise , the tutor introduces him to the upper class- man he should know , or , when this is not feasible , gives a word to the ...
Page 210
... undergraduates are well seated . On Sunday night they come out in full force , and from the time the first one enters until the last is seated , the undergraduates rattle and bang the tables , until it seems as if the glass must ...
... undergraduates are well seated . On Sunday night they come out in full force , and from the time the first one enters until the last is seated , the undergraduates rattle and bang the tables , until it seems as if the glass must ...
Page 214
... undergraduates are con- cerned , every operative statute of the university , with the exception of those relating to matriculation and gradua- tion , refers to conduct in the streets after nightfall , and almost without exception they ...
... undergraduates are con- cerned , every operative statute of the university , with the exception of those relating to matriculation and gradua- tion , refers to conduct in the streets after nightfall , and almost without exception they ...
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Page 131 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Page 149 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 80 - Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.
Page 138 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...
Page 4 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body ; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.
Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 4 - ... whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
Page 28 - ... owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, "that would be foolish, indeed.
Page 10 - Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart ; the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him ; so that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires.
Page 76 - the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation.