Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trustees of some university like Harvard. Doubtless great good would have been done in either case. Be that as it may, Mr. Clark has seen fit to add one more to the already large list of colleges and this one is to be carried on as an ideal creation of his own mind. Whether he will be successful in his design, years only will tell. We cannot but look upon this institution as a possible rival of our own University, but we can console ourselves with the thought that such an institution as Mr. Clark has conceived, is the result...
...subject of college expenses has been much debated lately. At our commencement dinner a year ago our chairman insisted that the ideal of the University should be plain living and high thinking. And certainly there is apt to be something vulgar, as well as vicious, in the man of books who turns away from winning intellectual wealth and indulges in tawdry extravagance. Yet every friend of Harvard is obliged to acknowledge with shame that the loose spender has a lodging in our yard...
...criticised may learn something from the statements of this writer: He tells how, when Professor Hill first came to Cambridge, the English department was unworthy of its name of department, and if one sees mistakes and insufficiencies now, one ought to judge them not in the light of an ideal but in the light of the past, and then be thankful for present blessings, instead of bewailing those which are not given. We are inclined to believe that the English department, especially owing to the changes in the new pamphlet, is now one of the most efficient in the college...
CHARLES DOWNER, Capt.LOST - A Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen with gold pen and band. Finder please leave with Leavitt & Pierce...
...before his eyes. That a general can contain a particular truth does not seem to have yet entered his head. "Abstinence in the economic sense is never thought of by Christ." And why? "Because it is plain that self sacrifice was considered admirable only in relation to a particular ideal, viz.: "Love of God and one's neighbor." Is then economic abstinence contrary to the love of your neighbor? Does the love of your neighbor preclude the love of yourself? If so, for what have Butler and Hartley and Mill lived? Again, "Saving is not a virtue...