Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...just proportion, makes memory possible; preserves faithfulness, and with reverend hand upholds to us noble examples of the heroes and the saints who are gone. It stores up for succeeding generations the knowledge and the moral worth of the past. Thus also wise radicalism is a power for good because it is truly progressive, creative, affirmative...
...perfectly combined. By His whole life we are taught respect for the past, firmness to adapt the old truth to the search for new truth. Yet His radicalism is living; not passive, but active. The old testament "Thou shalt not do evil" becomes the new testament "Thou shalt do good...
...shall have a training table this year. We are at a loss to account for this lack of interest in the athletic team, which is certainly unmerited. But whatever may be the reason for it, one thing is plain, it must not continue. The prospects for turning out a good team are excellent, and they must not be dwarfed by a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the students. Want of loyalty to a team must never be charged to Harvard men, whose enthusiasm is not wont to flag even in the face of defeat. The Athletic Association...
...Copeland cannot well be over-estimated. An excellent reader himself, he has the faculty of knowing how to instruct others, and under his tuition very poor readers make rapid improvement. His curse in debating which was started last year has met with success and has proved a good training school for men who wish to enter one of the debating clubs. It is also of considerable value to men who are already members of these clubs, since in Mr. Copeland's course they may obtain able criticism on their work. We feel sure that Mr. Copeland's new courses will...