Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hence, a quick succession of captains in the crews and nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands...
...pattern which became the canon used on the coins and vases of his time. Afterwards Lysippe made a lighter canon of more slender proportions. In its turn this figure was used for all ornamental purposes. All these representations of athletes were realistic, and if they had not led to ideal figures, Greek Art could not have approached its highest level. The danger that the artist should be engrossed in the real was subverted by the ideal in the figures of the gods. It was not until the athletic games became ridiculous and tainted with professionalism that they lost their hold...
...evident desire of any one to know. One thing however is certain. If the ill-fated club is to be recalled to life it must be upon an essentially new basis. But will such a society bear such a new construction? We question it. Its former ideal was too realistic, too highly seasoned for other than a short and inglorious existence. No other ideal will satisfy the aspirations of the followers of its past teaching. If it is to be revived in the form of a Shakspere Conference, it is, as Dr. Johnson says, "already dead...
...been the elements in which all life was lived, all knowledge known, all growth attained. Oh! how little men have made it, and how great it is. Around all life which ever has been lived there has been found forever the life of the loving Deity and the ideal humanity. All partial excellence, all learning, all brotherhood, all hope, has been bosomed on this changeless, this unchanging being, which has stretched from the forgotten beginning to the end. It is because God has been always good; because man has been always the son of God, capable in the very substance...
...provisions have come down to us, in the grateful comment of his friends and of those of the college. And so the figure of John Harvard rises before us to-day, doubly sacred, very likely for the scant knowledge which we have of him, lofty and august in the ideal which he represents, the gift of the great University on the Cam to this other great University of the Charles...