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"You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal."
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"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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"How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!"
"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
"A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one."
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
"I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child."
"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."
"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
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