Quotes by Halsey, Margaret

I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a >>

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twi >>

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time >>

Quotations about Colleges and Universities

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to >>

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a >>

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the ed >>

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

Halsey, Margaret