[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a heavy burden on the conscience to know that while you sat in Music 101, some contemporary--as "worthy" of a college educa...tion as you were, but one who had been denied the opportunity because he was poor, or black, or both--was getting his head blown off in Vietnam. Many students believed that such inequity was wrong, but couldn't bring themselves to redress it personally by refusing the student deferment. It's a dreadful combination: to act for self-protection yet at the same time to loathe oneself for acting that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for... perfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and contemplate the universe. It is bi...g, complex, demanding, competitive, bureaucratic, and chronically short of money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions ...in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am now quite lame, from scuffling, all my fingers stiffened by playing ball. Pretty business for a law student. Yes, pretty enou...gh; why not? Good exercise and great sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,... and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very... well, considering we never controlled him much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life than on learning yesterday from Bob's letter, that you had failed to enter Harvard Un...iversity. And yet there is very little in it, if you will allow no feeling of discouragement to seize, and prey upon you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »