Monthly Archives: November 2013
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education (The Road From Coorain Leads To Smith College), Jill Ker Conway
Prelude, p. 3 If we’re lucky, the places and people that can give our lives an aura of magic potential enter our experience at the right moment to sustain our dreams. One generation can give another that sustenance, not so … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education, Jill Ker Conway
p. 15 As is always the case, a headhunter’s beguiling call or a meeting with a search committee interrupts the breakneck flow of the present and sets one musing about past and future. So I went back to Toronto puzzling … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education, Jill Ker Conway
p. 31 All were inspired by the ideal of the moral education al community. Jeffersonian America was anti-urban, and its colleges set in rural tranquility were an idiosyncratic expression of an American ideal: knowledge without lost innocence — the theme … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education, Jill Ker Conway
p. 40 And I’d read Christine de Pizan, the fifteenth-century court historian and writer on military strategy, whose female utopia, described in her City of Ladies, always delighted me. She pictured women building their own city, brick by brick, as … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education, Jill Ker Conway
p. 59 There’s no easy way to describe a college president’s job, let alone explain why it’s enjoyable. It involves so many often conflicting roles, played in relation to so many different constituencies, frequently constituencies with directly opposed points of … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education, Jill Ker Conway
p. 120 I learned most from the face we presented to the world and way the institution was perceived. Spending the better decade as a spokeswoman on women questions—women and work, women and religion, women in academe, women in the … Continue reading
A Woman’s Education, Jill Ker Conway
p. 140 More comical was the problem that I couldn’t settle easily into any of the many thriving women’s studies programs that ought to have been a logical home. I was too impatient, even exasperated, with the direction of feminist … Continue reading
Real Simple
“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life … Continue reading
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
P. 4 He was a little country boy, and this village was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts. P. 15 John Bergson had the Old-World belief that land, in … Continue reading
The Bible and meaningful books 