Name: The Whitney Memorial Meeting
Author: Bernadotte Perrin

Quotes from The Whitney Memorial Meeting (Bernadotte Perrin)

Bernadotte Perrin, The Whitney Memorial Meeting (1897)

“ But no true university work can be done until both instructor and pupil come under the influence of the larger ideal, the historical ideal. Language, literature, and institutions must all be studied as exponents of a great national life, in fierce contest for supremacy with other great national lives. It was the manifest desire in Professor Whitney to bring the national life and thought of India into fair comparison with those of the two great peoples of Greece and Rome, which most impressed those of his pupils who were classical philologists. ”

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Bernadotte Perrin, The Whitney Memorial Meeting (1897)

“ The example of Professor Whitney's career gave all his pupils a lofty ideal, and most of them a new ideal. The old ideal of an academic instructor in the classics was that of a genial man, of good literary form, who had acquired enough to teach what was required of him in a stimulating way, without much reference to anything beyond the formation of a good literary taste and style in the pupil. ”

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Bernadotte Perrin, The Whitney Memorial Meeting (1897)

“ A young man just entering the domain of classical philology, and getting his first ranges over the fields of classical literature, is sure to have a distorted idea of the relative superiority of those literatures, from comparative ignorance both of other ancient and of modern literatures. ”

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Bernadotte Perrin, The Whitney Memorial Meeting (1897)

“ Hellenists, Latinists, and linguists of every sort, and even historical students in the more restricted sense, all over this country and Europe, are now laboring each in his chosen field, with a more equable spirit, a broader method, and a loftier ideal, because they have caught them all, directly or indirectly, from the master whose memory we honor. ”

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Bernadotte Perrin, The Whitney Memorial Meeting (1897)

“ That end, as it was natural for one to feel who had swept such a wide range of comparative studies, was the reconstruction of a past national life, or of the processes of a long organic development, and the estimate of their part in the great competitive struggle of races and peoples and institutions, in which our present civilization and its complex problems have been evolved. ”

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Bernadotte Perrin, The Whitney Memorial Meeting (1897)

“ They do not hand on the special traditions of the school of Indian studies which Professor Whitney founded for this country, but they are carrying into their own fields of investigation a spirit, a method, and an ideal which they caught from him.
It seems as though no man could again attain to the absolute impartiality of his spirit. A young enthusiast often mistook its crystal clarity for coldness and lack of zest. It prevented Professor Whitney from being what is called magnetic. ”

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