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"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
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"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
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"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."
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"I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'."
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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."
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"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject."
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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."
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"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."
Bed
"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
Man
"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
Guidance
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
Science
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
Machine
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
Light
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
Mathematics
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."
Will
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
England
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
Family
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