The Bluffton College Bulletin Vol 5

Author : Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
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ISBN 13 : 9781330621080
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Holy Ghost College Bulletin, 1898, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Holy Ghost College Bulletin, 1898, Vol. 5 "Where shall we go to school?" "What kind of an education shall we pursue?" are questions that recur every year to the mind of the earnest young man, who feels the necessity of fitting himself out for the struggles of his future life. Parents are even still more sensible to the anxieties which prompt these questions, and many are the inquiries made, many are the premises laid down, and many are the dilemmas instituted, before the ultimate conclusion has been arrived at, in regard to this all-important matter of their children's education. To many it must seem a rather lengthy period of time that is consumed in our regular College Course. Is not this a somewhat useless expenditure? Why is it necessary to spend so many years in reading Cornelius Nepos, and Caesar and Virgil, and Cicero and Horace, not to speak of the corresponding Greek authors whose works are put into pupils hands year after year? - Would not one of these be sufficient? and after all, would not the grammar alone be enough to produce the results desired? It is true that a future priest needs to be familiar with those things; but, for the doctor or the lawyer, could not all this be boiled down to the minimum that is needed for his distinct profession? And, surely, for ordinary persons a good drill of a year or two in some practical points is the best thing that can be suggested to the ambitious youth of this hustling age! All this is but a conservative and incomplete expression of the thoughts and reasonings of a vast multitude - even of parents who are, otherwise, able and willing to give their children a good education. But most of them cannot, at all, and some can, only with considerable difficulty, be brought to understand that the prolonged sojourn of a student in a good college is not merely designed to provide a safe and temporary harbor from the dangers of that tempestuous season of life - but it is a period of hard and unceasing labor, scarcely sufficient, in its most extensive course, to insure a good, thorough education in the true and broad sense of the word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.