I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the ...sweet stench of corruption that is all around them--the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attra...ctive than any undergraduate body in the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In looking back over the college careers of those who for various reasons have been prominent in undergraduate life ... one cannot... help noticing that these men have nearly always shown from the start an interest in the lives of their fellow students. A large acquaintance means that many persons are dependent on a man and conversely that he himself is dependent on many. Success necessarily means larger responsibilities, and responsibilities mean many friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death w...ould speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was betwe...en David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.... It is in this century misunderstood ... and on account of it I am placed where I am now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »