The Launching of a University, And Other Papers; a Sheaf of Remembrances
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New inventions and dis- coveries disturb existing usages, and for the day seem to bring harm rather than good. Progress is not favourable to repose, and repose is the scholar's paradise. No one will wonder if the changes now going forward, which look so hopeful from the outside, are attended with some regret within the circle. Of any such details I am ignorant ; I speak only of the ordinary feelings of human nature. At the same 272 THE LAUNCHING OF A UNIVERSITY time, I am so sure that the sun i...s rising upon Cleveland that I welcome the clouds which herald the dawn. They mark the movement of the morning's chariot. But not here alone. The most casual observer of educational progress in this country must perceive that the Nation is entering upon what might be termed the university epoch. Our common school system is established, we have an abundance of colleges now comes the day for a few great, comprehensive, well- ordered, and well-endowed universities. It is easy to see that not only Cambridge and New Haven, but Ithaca, and Ann Arbor, and Baltimore, are advancing upon the uni- versity plane.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
New inventions and dis- coveries disturb existing usages, and for the day seem to bring harm rather than good. Progress is not favourable to repose, and repose is the scholar's paradise. No one will wonder if the changes now going forward, which look so hopeful from the outside, are attended with some regret within the circle. Of any such details I am ignorant ; I speak only of the ordinary feelings of human nature. At the same 272 THE LAUNCHING OF A UNIVERSITY time, I am so sure that the sun i...s rising upon Cleveland that I welcome the clouds which herald the dawn. They mark the movement of the morning's chariot. But not here alone. The most casual observer of educational progress in this country must perceive that the Nation is entering upon what might be termed the university epoch. Our common school system is established, we have an abundance of colleges now comes the day for a few great, comprehensive, well- ordered, and well-endowed universities. It is easy to see that not only Cambridge and New Haven, but Ithaca, and Ann Arbor, and Baltimore, are advancing upon the uni- versity plane.
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