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... Science - Page 404edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 668 pages
...implied that the work of a college is to make a man of culture, a man of intellectual resources, si man of public spirit, a man of refinement, with that...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul. These be parlous words. But you did not teach in parables alone ; you brought your object lesson with... | |
 | 1889 - 782 pages
...the education he would wish his Alma Mater to offer to American youth. " Let it continue," said he, " to give such a training as will fit the rich to be...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul." What I have urged by no means implies that the college course would be a four-years' lengthening of... | |
 | Lew Wallace - 1889 - 724 pages
...that ennobles life and makes it generous. Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth that is put under our charge ; not a conventional gentleman,...conscience which is the good taste of the soul." In 1887 he published a volume of recent addresses and essays, entitled "Democracy," and in 1888 a volume... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 336 pages
...the poor to withstand the temptations of poverty. Give to History, give to Political Economy, that ample verge the times demand, but with no detriment...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul. This we have tried to do in the past, this let us try to do in the future. We cannot do this for all,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 pages
...every youth who is put under our charge ; not a conventional gentleman, but a man of culture, a mall of intellectual resource, a man of public spirit,...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul. This we have tried to do in the past, this let us try to do in the future. We cannot do this for all,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 398 pages
...charge ; not a conventional gentleman, but a man of culture, a mail of intellectual resource, a man roi public spirit, a man of refinement, with that good...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul. This we have tried to do in the past, this let us try to do in the future. We cannot do this for all,... | |
 | 1893 - 578 pages
...in an address delivered at the \_j 25oth anniversary of the foundation of Harvard University, said: "Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul." Often the best part of a sermon is the text, and yet the preacher feels that there is something he... | |
 | 1893 - 786 pages
...This is not a fad but a genuine reform, and those who help it on will do a good service. 325 Our Hope. "Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul." From Lowell's Address delivered at the 2soth anniversary of the foundation of Harvard University. Often... | |
 | Philip Stafford Moxom - 1894 - 316 pages
...Geschmack," — there is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste, — he surely was thinking of " that good taste which is the conscience of the mind,...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul." (3) Self-control involves also command of one's practical activities. Scarcely less important than... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1895 - 372 pages
...college that we are celebrating, it is the college that we love and of which we are proud — let it continue to give such a training as will fit the rich...that conscience which is the good taste of the soul. This we have tried to do in the past ; this let us try to do in the future. We cannot do this for all... | |
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