The Voice of the Scholar: With Other Addresses on the Problems of Higher EducationPaul Elder, 1903 - 280 |
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... function of democracy to do anything very well . There is nothing in collective effort which ensures right action . Its function is to develop intelligence and patriotism through doing for ourselves all things possible which concern us ...
... function of democracy to do anything very well . There is nothing in collective effort which ensures right action . Its function is to develop intelligence and patriotism through doing for ourselves all things possible which concern us ...
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... function of the university to struggle against the bad , day and night , in season and out of season , to convert it into the good . That vulgarity is free to express itself in our system does not exalt vulgarity . In the long run ...
... function of the university to struggle against the bad , day and night , in season and out of season , to convert it into the good . That vulgarity is free to express itself in our system does not exalt vulgarity . In the long run ...
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... function of all the glorious brother- hood of plain life and high thought . To keep up wisdom among men is the natural . function of the university . The need of the times is not of men to die for the right , but of men to live for it ...
... function of all the glorious brother- hood of plain life and high thought . To keep up wisdom among men is the natural . function of the university . The need of the times is not of men to die for the right , but of men to live for it ...
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... is not part of its function . In order that politics shall not creep into the university , the men of the university must try not to creep into poli- tics . It is not because the university is afraid 24 THE VOICE OF THE SCHOLAR.
... is not part of its function . In order that politics shall not creep into the university , the men of the university must try not to creep into poli- tics . It is not because the university is afraid 24 THE VOICE OF THE SCHOLAR.
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... function of the university in public affairs must always be essentially judicial . This does not mean that the scholar's voice should be silent in times of moral issues . It is now and then the scholar's sworn duty to take the great ...
... function of the university in public affairs must always be essentially judicial . This does not mean that the scholar's voice should be silent in times of moral issues . It is now and then the scholar's sworn duty to take the great ...
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