“For them all, the college offered chiefly advantages vulgarly called social, rather than mental.”
It seems that not much has changed, no? College as a status “box check” versus a rich experience of learning and earnest inquiry in the pursuit of truth?
“For them all, the college offered chiefly advantages vulgarly called social, rather than mental.”
It seems that not much has changed, no? College as a status “box check” versus a rich experience of learning and earnest inquiry in the pursuit of truth?
"Henry Adams was afraid to write about himself in the first person, so he did it in the third..."