THE GRADUATES RETURN

ISBN: 9780267197439 Géneros: VSPM Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Graduates Return An Oration Before the Alumni of Harvard University at Their Triennial Festival July 19 1860The dull world may deny this and try to set up an impassable barrier between youth and manhood in the name of its pet word experience as if the prosy sound must needs put all young enthusiasm to flight We accept the word but not in any disheartening sense not allowing for a moment that wisdom im plies the death of any generous feeling True in deed there is a time when we are tempted to lose our ideal in the actual and perhaps think that a dull worldliness is the necessary cost of experience ready to say with SchillerAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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