"full-orbed manhood"

[NewGuise]

In my current administrative position I sit at a desk that belonged to this University's founding President. It is lovely. This afternoon I had a meeting with a senior colleague, who quoted a phrase from said President's first convocation speech, saying that he called for the development of a "full-orbed manhood." I pointed out that this was an interesting phrase to use when speaking to a man in a kilt (my new Keltoi box-pleated Highland Cathedral, to be exact), and caused her to blush. She had been thinking of the phrase very much in context. In 1908, Henry Marshall Tory spoke to the assembled faculty and students of the newly-formed University of Alberta, saying,

The process of education is a complicated process. Modern science teaches us that our art, our science, our literature, our history, our institutions of government, our religious life, all are so interwoven with the fabric of our life that in the rounding out of a full-orbed manhood none of these can be neglected. For their proper appreciation teaching power is necessary. Into their inner and larger meaning the university teacher must lead his students. Our professors are first of all teachers. To them the largest freedom must be given. It is their duty to push into the heart of things that the truth and nothing but the truth may be, discovered. I am sure they will temper freedom with discretion.

Out of context, though, the phrase could almost be a slogan for us here: "The kilt: clothing for a full-orbed manhood"...

I love this desk even more, now.

[CMcG]

Three cheers for full-orbed manhood! And for professors!

[Cygnus]

Three cheers for full-orbed manhood! And for professors!

And the people behind the scenes who make what the professors do possible!

[NewGuise]

And the people behind the scenes who make what the professors do possible!

Amen to that. Although I wish that more of them wore kilts.

[Riverkilt]

Love it! A way of saying living life to the fullest.

Amazing how common sense reigns at universities.

[Pleater]

I was quite taken with the phrase 'temper freedom with discretion'.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[McClef]

A potential other answer to the Question?

[Tartan Hiker]

I'll try to find some way to work this phrase into one of my upcoming anatomy lectures.

[CDNSushi]

ith:

A full-orbed gentleman wears the kilt > a well-rounded gentlemen wears the kilt.

[wildrover]

So much signature line material to choose from!

"The kilt: clothing for a full-orbed manhood"

'temper freedom with discretion'

(I think that's what all those high school administrators are concerned with, when banning kilts from prom night!)

A full-orbed gentleman wears the kilt