Word: aright
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...Failures of this kind to see aright beset everyone in every occupation, and they are most insidious because unconscious. Jonah in success lost sight of the real object of his work. The same may be true in failure...
College graduates who have met successfully the stern problems of life are pre-eminently qualified to guide aright the steps of the undergraduate. Such sound advice as Dean Pound, Secretary Roosevelt, Colonel Woods, Colonel Roosevelt, and General Wood can give, will be of real, practical assistance to every one in facing these problems. Undergraduates must count the privilege of hearing these distinguished men as one of the most valuable features of university life...
...lives of great men is comprehended in the sum of the two terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which are the engrossing problems of the present; it is, finally, the vision which sees...
...judge Charles William Eliot aright, you must put out of mind his titles, his honors, and his successes. These have been but happy accidents. They reflect credit on the community to which he belonged, and the times in which he lived; but they throw little light on his character. That he was elected President of Harvard College was surprising; that he made a success of his new work was more surprising. For he had not what was usually recognized as an academic mind. Like Wordsworth, he had "to create the taste by which he was appreciated...
...before, he will be asked to give his whole time to military preparation. Those who are not in the training corps will be wise to wait until they can discern the path of their greatest usefulness. That will not take very long; and it is far better to choose aright than to choose quickly. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...