Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that this spirit has shown its efficiency is in bringing us freedom. Not very long ago when scholars realized that they were in the wrong they were afraid to admit it for fear of losing their influence. Even the universities were often afraid of new learning and the discoveries of science, because, if these became generally known they might lose the respect of the people. Governments were afraid to have people know their rights because if they had known them the ruling powers might have been overturned. But now the great endeavor of all men is that every one should...
...Even if the world is not yet what it ought to be, we must recognize that there is another reason for this besides a failure of the force. It is imperfection of the machinery. An article cannot be perfectly manufactured, no matter how great the force, without good machinery. Our machinery could not now be faultless; the science of economics is not yet thoroughly understood, nor is the art of right and just government perfectly clear. So with a boundless force we could not yet have the world perfect, but let us rest assured with so many evidences...
...papers about the college man in business, and extremists have gone so far as to assert that college unfits a man for a business career. This in general we cannot agree with. There are undoubtedly cases where the freedom of college life does unfit men for business; there is even such a thing as the "university fool" who is unfitted for everything. But he is not a typical college man. If he graduates a fool it is not the fault of the college but of the man himself...
Take, for example, the spade and notice how each school treats it. For the Realist of the Ruskin type it is a tool of wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion...
...Epistle to the Colossians. Everyone, he said, has before him the choice of what he shall do and how he shall do it. How he chooses is the best test of the man. Here in a University we are constantly called upon to choose between pleasure and duty, and even in our work we must always be choosing what sort of things we shall do. Here are many things set before us and most of them good things. Shall we now choose the serious and lasting or shall we give ourselves up to idleness and enjoyment? The college must always...