Capitolo 72
more narrow with years and the certain men with terrestrial of common ownership
tastes were tied up to come together. Adams only knew that he is able
you/he/she is felt on a more equal grip with you/he/she had been them him
less ignorant person, and you/he/she had thrown away not him ten years of early life
in to acquire what is probable that he would have acquired in the one.
Socially or intellectually, university was for him negative
and in of the ways harmful. The most tolerant man of the world
you/he/she could not see good in the lowest habits of the students but the
vices were less harmful than the virtues. The habit to drink
-- although his mere memory did him/it doubt his really
truthfulness, so fantastic it seemed in later life--you/he/she has been able to do
any great or permanent damage; but the habit to look at the life as a
social relationship--a bargain of society--it did anybody good. It
cultivated a weakness that needed any crop. If it had
helped to make men of the world, or it gives the manners and
instincts of some profession--as temperament, patience,
courtesy or a faculty to draw profit from the social defects of
opponents--you/he/she would have been education the best value having
what the mathematics or languages; but till now as it helped to do
anything, only helped to make the standard of permanent university
through the life. The Bostonian instructed to University in remained Harvard
a schoolboy, if he only hammered him to what university gave him. If
parents followed generation after generation, while sending them
children to the university in Harvard in the interest of his social
advantages, they perpetuated a social and inferior type, completely as
sick-equipped as the type in Oxford for the success in the next generation.
Fortunately the old social standard of the university as President
Pedestrian or James Russell Lowell he/she anchors they showed him/it, it was admirable,
and if it had little practical value or the personal influence on the
students' mass, at least it preserved the tradition for those