Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is an old custom at the University of Pennsylvania, called the Cremation, that it is interesting to know and to remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college...
...indefatigable industry and love, he pushed his-noble work which took eight centuries and a Luther to undo. He became arch-bishop and papal legate. From his home in Britain came zealous men and women to aid him in his work. At last he fell a victim to his ideal and died a martyr's death, killed by the men he was attempting to save...
...drawn up no "rules and regulations" respecting their conduct, so that all exercises, including chapel, are voluntary. So far this arrangement has worked very well and the faculty now believe that they will not find it necessary to resort to the more customary, but less ideal methods of college government...
...Nassau Lit. has lately tried to introduce the habit of using translations more than is done at present in college papers. It presented to the world in its last number several translations, of very perfect taste and finish. Now taking the Nassau Lit. as the bean ideal of what a college magazine should be, we cannot help thinking that perhaps it is justified in its call for more translations. In the first place, it is not to be presumed that an immature writer whose sole merit is a good command of English, can develop the instant he becomes editor...
...necessarily be diffused throughout the college. A higher and a broader morality would be created in student life. That reverence and love which religion, if of any meaning, must inspire, would be preserved, instead of being, as at present, foolishly and blindly wasted. The very manliness of a nobler ideal would ripen into nobler lives. The memories of such a service would linger in every mind and heart. The finer and subtler influences emanating from it would profoundly affect every life...