Word: honest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Royce's reply is very long and partly philosophical. Its essence is as follows: "A newspaper approaches the ideal, then, in proportion as it lets its community see, honestly and accurately, just what the real life of the moment is; that is, in proportion as it makes its readers actually conscious of the present world of passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy, in which, as in an ocean, they pass their lives. The ideal newspaper, then, tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth...
...would promote the welfare of the country by carrying out its principles of (a) a respectable foreign policy; (b) the suppression of Mormonism; (c) a free ballot and an honest count. References: The Philadelphia Press, Jan. 4, 1888; Stanwood's Presidential Elections; "Platform Promises," 1864-1884 (MS. pamphlet...
...here for use. They are not kept like the old lady's umbrella, which she boasted she had had for twenty-seven years, "and it's never been wet yet." Some libraries are kept like that. But here they wish to see books worn out, so far as honest use will wear them. New atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, speedily grow ragged, and the bookbinder has a tremendous bill every month...
...finest accounts of life at Harvard appears in this number under the head of "Notes from Harvard, its Physical basis and its Intellectual Life." Some important facts with relation to the college of which most of the students here are ignorant, strike the reader forcibly, and more honest, unprejudiced criticism is crammed in a few pages than has appeared in print for many a day. The last few pages of the number are devoted to a study of the origin of "The Treadmill in America" and minor topics, original documents, notes...
...reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday, lifting a decorous mass of 6000 cold American onlookers into a crowd of passionate enthusiasts, forgetting all the forced and frigid rules of conventional mannerism, in good, hearty, honest out bursts of delight, is not outside the missionary spirit. It helped to maugurate or to increase among so many, at least, a better understanding of what the body can reach in fleetness, in dexterity, in strength and in endurance; and in spite of the shock to fastidiousness...