The Voice of the Scholar: With Other Addresses on the Problems of Higher EducationPaul Elder, 1903 - 280 |
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... or for fools . On the same principle , the academic freedom of the college professor is a thing that must be won by merit , not claimed as a privilege . The right to proclaim truth belongs to him who has 23 THE VOICE OF THE SCHOLAR.
... or for fools . On the same principle , the academic freedom of the college professor is a thing that must be won by merit , not claimed as a privilege . The right to proclaim truth belongs to him who has 23 THE VOICE OF THE SCHOLAR.
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... professor who makes his chair a center of propaganda of personal opinions . Whether these are right or wrong , popular or unpopular , makes little difference . The effect is the same . The appeal is to prejudice and takes the place of ...
... professor who makes his chair a center of propaganda of personal opinions . Whether these are right or wrong , popular or unpopular , makes little difference . The effect is the same . The appeal is to prejudice and takes the place of ...
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... professors have their hands full of lower work . The books and material the university work demand are far more costly than the college can afford . The trustees still too often regard the graduate school as an expensive alien , and its ...
... professors have their hands full of lower work . The books and material the university work demand are far more costly than the college can afford . The trustees still too often regard the graduate school as an expensive alien , and its ...
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... professors , regardless of all other qualifica- tions , excepting those of personal merit and adaptation to the chairs that are to be filled . Borrow if you can- not enlist . Give them freedom . Give them auxil- Encourage them iaries ...
... professors , regardless of all other qualifica- tions , excepting those of personal merit and adaptation to the chairs that are to be filled . Borrow if you can- not enlist . Give them freedom . Give them auxil- Encourage them iaries ...
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... check - rein should be placed on the enthusiastic young professor who was responsible " for the destruc- tion of Harvard's time - honored symmetry . In Agassiz's answer we touch the keynote of uni- versity 55 APOLOGY FOR AMERICAN ...
... check - rein should be placed on the enthusiastic young professor who was responsible " for the destruc- tion of Harvard's time - honored symmetry . In Agassiz's answer we touch the keynote of uni- versity 55 APOLOGY FOR AMERICAN ...
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