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...history as the premier who settled the Irish question than as the one who defeated Germany. (Though it is fair to add that this statement was made after the war.) And there have been many men to whom an amicable peace between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful but obvious duty to crush them. Yet he was puzzled. So was William before...
...minor annoyances of mid-years. To the man for whom studies are merely an unpleasant corollary of college life, it is painful to have to choose new courses when he has barely come through the ordeal of the old ones. To the man to whom studies are the summum bonum, it is painful to contemplate the pamphlet known as "Courses of Instruction" and consider what a small fraction of possible education he is able to take. But in either case it has to be done, and done at once. Our familiar habit of leaving everything until the last possible moment...
...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...
Progress toward the summum bonum in education has been slow during the last five thousand years but nevertheless it has been encouraging. We may trust the time will soon come when the great high schools of the country will give courses in merchandising, emphasizing the practical side of it, of course, as for example, teaching the eager youth of the country how to dispose of dry goods in the basement for five dollars that goes begging on the first floor at two dollars and fifty cents...
...characterizations needed no explanation in 1884. Perhaps they do now. Blaine was regarded as worldly because of the Credit Mobilier and the "Burn this letter" episode. Cleveland was--well, fleshy; Brisbane's "girthy Princeton person" is remembered. And Butler--well, demortuis nil nisi bonum. Boston Transcript...