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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Education in the Far EastThe critical problem of Japan is, in a word, to continue to keep its life simple, as it takes its place with the other great political powers of the world. Simplicity of life is a state of mind quite as much as a condition of environ ment. But it is concerned with environment as well as with the mental state. The simple life is the interpretation of life in terms of the spirit, and not of the ¿esh or of th...

Excerpt from College Training and the Business ManFor almost three hundred years the American college has been seeking to serve the higher interests of American life. It has been, and still is, supposed to bear a special relation of preparation for what are known as the learned professions. Bank ing, transportation, insurance represent three great labors to which men in increas ing numbers and of greater power have in recent years been giving ...

Reproduction of the original: Letters from a Father to his Son entering College by Charles Franklin Thwing

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The American Colleges and Universities in the Great War, 1914-1919: A HistoryIts narrowness for an increase of all human forces and for a worthy bettering of all that makes for the welfare of men. I trust that, from the reading of these pages, one may come, as I come from their writing, with a lordlier hope for the race and for the races.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Best Life: An AddressMy first answer is: It is the life of truth, the life that is spent in searching for, in hold ing, and in expressing, the truth. To inquire, to know, to tell: these are three phases or functions of our relation to what we call truth. The first command of the Bible is, Let there be light, and the first commendation of the Bible is, And God saw the light, that it was good. Among the last declarations of the ...

Excerpt from The Choice of a College, for a BoyParents too often choose a college for a son without special thought or knowledge. To many people a col lege is a college, as a spade is a spade. But the slightest re¿ection, or the most superficial knowledge, is sufficient to produce the conviction that colleges differ as funda mentally as any other products of human skill. Certain institutions that bear the name of college advance the student to...

Excerpt from God in His WorldTherefore the proposition to which I ask your thought is that God's presence in his world is immediate and personal.The proposition is the old doctrine of the omnipresence of God. It is also the new doctrine of the immanence of God. It is the scientific doctrine that all we know of the world is that it is force, combined with the philosophical doctrine that this force is personal. It is the song of the poet as well...

Excerpt from Within College WallsThe purpose Of the best home and of the best college is identical It is the purpose than which none is more precious. It is the purpose of making the character of the student-child strong and pure and noble The aim of every parent and of every college Officer is, I venture to say to give to each one committed to charge knowledge without pedantry, self-reliance without arrogance, gentleness without weakness, hop...

Excerpt from Letters From a Father to His Son Entering CollegeParts of the letters that make up this little book were read to my own college boys at the opening of a college year. They represent somewhat, but of course only a bit, of what I believe many a father would like to say to his own son, - as I to mine, - when he is entering the most important year of his college life the Freshman. Those who first heard them, even though obliged to hea...