Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance of Handel's Messiah. Without an afternoon or evening spent under the majestically beautiful power of this great work Christmas would seem to be lacking in some particular. Under its spell everything else is forgotten and from the mighty strength of the "Hallelujah Chorus," and the clear burning faith of the aria. "I knew that my Redeemer liveth," from the entire work as a whole there comes over into the listener something of the peace the fresh purpose, the idealism which is Christmas. What is music that it can distill and epitomize thoughts which almost lie too deep...
This might well be described as the article of faith back of the whole system of concentration and distribution, of guidance strictly limited and of adaptation to the student rather than to the "collegian." It is highly encouraging to watch its development and expansion in one college after another. With greater and wider experience in its application its defects will be discovered and eliminated with much greater success than would be possible if it remained confined to only one or two institutions of higher learning...
...relation to the things which he was going to do with himself afterward. We may differ with him as to some of his theories of teaching or some of his ideas as to what the college course should emphasize; for like most successful reformers, he had a rather blind faith in his own cherished principles. We may even doubt the usefulness of the elective system, as he carried it out. But no one can have any doubt whatever of the salutary effect of his ideas and his forceful presentation of these ideas on American colleges as a whole and American...
Later he was buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery, again with the simplest kind of ceremony. And Harvard men returned once more to their work, carrying with them not tears and regrets, but President Eliot's spirit, a firm faith in progress and the future...
...Surely we do", said I dancing with glee to know that my faith was justified, for this certainly was Santa Claus. None else would give me a ride in a taxi "Some people think I teach Shakespeare or lecture on the Boston Herald. That is two other people. I teach human kindness pragmatically...