Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here an ideal empire which combined all the best of the older States, were made by the various speakers who followed...
...reputation is the reputation of her alumni. They must be worth something in the world to make her worth anything. Yet that Harvard may send out such men, it is needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must be for us an ideal. In part, to be sure, she does fulfill this calling; but in part she fails. As the oldest college of our country, more sentiment and tradition has gathered around her name, than around any other. She has come down to us as a heroine out of the past...
...essays Matthew Arnold writes: "Who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen...
...such a paper the humor could be better, for there would be less need of making it to order to fill up a certain number of columns; while the best features of the "Advocate," those which are not preserved in the "Monthly," would be kept. Such a paper, an ideal exponent of the lighter side of student life, if well conducted; could not fall to be a greater success than either the "Advocate" or the "Lampoon" now are, and a greater credit to the editors. The process of evolution here has been going on so steadily within the past...
...body of men who have before them the complete data. Whether, having those data, they reach a true determination, must and can be judged only by results. The capacity of the students, and later of the men, for self-government is the best evidence of the harmonious adaptation of ideal theories to the practical requirements of real life...