Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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The second stage of this process is best exemph- fied by the scholeniastcrs and professors of Natural Philosophy (yet are there notable and egregious exceptions among them who deserve much honor). For these men will offer none courses or lectures to the mass of the islanders and excuse this habit under the color of an obligation which they claim to owe to those who de ote themselves especially to this studv. 18

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Ot liatrcds of authority, most encouraficd arc those of civil officials and of parents, this last with the result that the .state of empire to which the isle belongs must pass measures distributing monies for the care of the aged. And yet, when during my residence on the isle, a young man made a harangue insulting and attacking the Elders and scholemasters, they were much distressed, as if to say, nay, nay, thou liast attacked the wrong authority.

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That is, tliey claim to he bound only In what the ' choosf to do, a clear contradiction and a defiance of the definition of Liberal Arts prt-sented abo e. And yet can I not find it in my heart to lilanic tlu ' se folk, honest and liard-working and of good repute, w ho liaxe been led to extoll and praise that course which thi y with little effort could easily see to be wrong, were not their honor in olved therein.