Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...introducing his subject Dr. Peabody said he had a few remarks to make upon the injurious effects of intoxicating drink. I myself, he said, am not an extremist in abstinence, but believe that every one should direct his own course according to the dictates of his own conscience...
...swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this reason that the names most prominent...
...itself a broader question than that of the elective system, but with the freshman year abolished, it would not directly affect the practical question of the Harvard curriculum. The agitation, we believe, can result in no other outcome than that of compromise; not however a compromise based on the extremist doctrines of President Eliot in regard to the early differentiation of studies...
...these documents are, naturally, in portions, severely partisan and at times inconsequent, having been originally expressed orally at a public meeting; but that they are wholly absurd and readily fallacious in statement is hardly to be believed, even by one who has read them carefully and is no ardent extremist on either side. As regards this matter, I have already learned of one convert to protection having been made by them, and I hope that others will be induced to investigate further the opposing arguments of both parties...
...boys are proficient in their studies, they are weak, listless and unenterprising. The remedy is to be sought by official direction in out-door games requiring skill and agility. The words of Dr. Crosby would have had more weight had they been less sweeping. He spoke like an extremist...