 Harvard who planned to become lawyers, that "no man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen, — to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach.  Michigan State Bar Journal - Page 1121924Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1903 - 732 pages
...attend your work, which shall be at once easy and new. No result is easv which is worth having .... No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...course by a star which he has never seen, — to dig bv the divining nod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this I point to that which will... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 1062 pages
...iiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillu The Joy of the Thinker No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen,—to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this, I point to... | |
 | Working class - 1921 - 144 pages
...raw material for the results which you do not see, cannot predict, and which may be long in coming. No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...lay his course by a star which he has never seen." Our leaders should not forget that the measure of the value of a class to the nation or to the world... | |
 | Working class - 1921 - 152 pages
...raw material for the results which you do not see, cannot predict, and which may be long in coming. No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...lay his course by a star which he has never seen." Our leaders should not forget that the measure of the value of a class to the nation or to the world... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...morality. This is Goodness, this is Humanism, this is the Social Conscience. — J. William Lloyd. 0 man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the divining-rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this, I point to that which will make... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...there 's the pools from the rain: But — there 's the cold and the dark. IP li ts»* ' •:.'<; 0 man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the divining-rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this, I point to that which will make... | |
 | Clayton Holt Ernst - Occupations - 1924 - 280 pages
...ago Mr. Justice Holmes said to the undergraduates of Harvard who were considering becoming lawyers : "No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...divining rod for springs which he may never reach." Not all of the satisfactions of the law can be adequately stated; some of them must be felt before... | |
 | Telephone - 1927 - 830 pages
...appreciation and thanks to Mr. Hoedel and the employees who were present at the luncheon. A £ A Mental Growth No MAN has earned the right to intellectual ambition...by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the divining-rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this, I point to that which will make... | |
 | 1968 - 1152 pages
...anticipate not achieving all of your goals, the words of the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes apply here. No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...divining rod for springs which he may never reach. The case method is a challenge to you and to your students. The dividends to be gained are worth the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 336 pages
...Holmes, who had this to say about intellectual heroism to Harvard University undergraduates in 1886 : "No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the diving rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this, I point to that which will make your... | |
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