Old Greek; An Old-Time Professor in an Old-Fashioned College PDF Download

Author: Simon Newton Dexter North
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330428030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Excerpt from Old Greek; An Old-Time Professor in an Old-Fashioned College: A Memoir of Edward North, With Selections From His Lectures Many reasons have seemed to justify and indeed to compel the publication of this volume. The life of Doctor Edward North reveals a relationship between the American college professor and his students, which was frequent in the early days in the small college and which has largely disappeared from our big modern universities, where professors and tutors are numbered by the hundred and students by the thousand. This picture of "Old Greek," the name by which he was familiarly and lovingly known, will stand for many another college professor, dear to his students, who spent his life making and molding men. His career is a typical, although not a unique, instance of the advantages which spring from this personal and intimate contact of professor and student and the influence of this association upon the character and career of the graduate body. This volume may afford a tangible basis from which to measure a certain distinct loss which has followed the disappearance of that relationship from the modern college environment. As an argument in favor of the small college, as contrasted with the big university, the life of Doctor Edward North is perhaps more suggestive than any yet written. His services as professor of Greek in Hamilton College covered fifty-eight years - as long a period as any similar service in the same chair in any American college or university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art 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.