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Honour - examinations , on the other hand , are less essential , and are liable to
special abuses . When much importance is attached to them they stimulate
competition to a frightful pitch , and by so doing warp and pervert or overstrain the
...
Honour - examinations , on the other hand , are less essential , and are liable to
special abuses . When much importance is attached to them they stimulate
competition to a frightful pitch , and by so doing warp and pervert or overstrain the
...
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... his function not less truly than teaching . If fellowships were looked upon as the
salary which the State gives to certain persons who undertake the duty of
investigating truth for her , and if a fellow who did not study were condemned by
public ...
... his function not less truly than teaching . If fellowships were looked upon as the
salary which the State gives to certain persons who undertake the duty of
investigating truth for her , and if a fellow who did not study were condemned by
public ...
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If the teaching class are too little united , the students are united still less . To be a
London student , has not hitherto meant to be a member of a vast student world .
Membership at one London college has not been a passport to the society of ...
If the teaching class are too little united , the students are united still less . To be a
London student , has not hitherto meant to be a member of a vast student world .
Membership at one London college has not been a passport to the society of ...
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The Romantic Schools , headed by Tieck and Hugo , are extinct or transformed ;
but the last twenty years have seen the rise in England of a mediæval literature
and art , more intense , if less vigorous — more delicate , if less enduring , than ...
The Romantic Schools , headed by Tieck and Hugo , are extinct or transformed ;
but the last twenty years have seen the rise in England of a mediæval literature
and art , more intense , if less vigorous — more delicate , if less enduring , than ...
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We are often told that in Germany there is an aristocracy of learning - that a
position in society depends far less on wealth or rank , than on ' natural abilities
and sound scholarship . But this ascendancy of knowledge is more ideal than
real .
We are often told that in Germany there is an aristocracy of learning - that a
position in society depends far less on wealth or rank , than on ' natural abilities
and sound scholarship . But this ascendancy of knowledge is more ideal than
real .
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