Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Huxley and education Address at the Opening of the College Year, Columbia University, September 28, 1910

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935· 2 chapters· 5,567 words

The most sanguine day of the college year is the opening one: the student has not yet faced the impossible task annually presented of embracing the modern world of knowledge; his errors and failures of earlier years are forgotten; he faces the coming months full of new hope.

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1. Part 1

The most sanguine day of the college year is the opening one: the student has not yet faced the impossible task annually presented of embracing the modern world of knowledge; hi...

2. Part 2

Pursuant of the constructive design, the measure of the teacher's success is the degree in which ideas come not from him but from his pupils. A brilliant address may produce a t...