Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer in a new and sometimes vigorous way, namely, by the seating, or rather un-seating arrangements in many of the larger recitation and lecture rooms. Now, as every student is well aware from long experience, recitation rooms with us are little nitches cut out of an ideal paradise. This being the case, especially with those in Massachusetts and Harvard Hall, the question arises, why should the seats be like smaller nitches cut out of an ideal - something else. Consistency is known to be a jewel, and here is a source of unbounded wealth for our faculty...
There is one cheerful side in their delay in this matter, and that is that they may possibly wait with their decision till the time comes when Harvard will have approached so near to the ideal standard of the German University, that marks and examinations will be unknown...
Found. - Waterman Ideal Pin in Mass. Apply to Mr. Jones...
...useless to work for a better condition, as the present is the "natural order of things." After science has pointed out certain results, sympathy comes in and teaches how to use these results. The sphere of sympathy is as wide as humanity. The new political economy shows that no ideal standard of man need be omitted. Years pass before the beautiful adjustments between capital and labor, on which the optimists dwell, come to pass. Legislation may do much to help in industrial crises. As witnesses of this, the good effect of the establishment of coffee houses, savings banks...
...business. The truth of this is found in the patronage which the more artistic merchants receive from the students of Harvard. A merchant who directs his business to attract as well as satisfy his customers will always find a ready appreciation of his efforts. We have at last the ideal realized in Mr. Beckhard's palatial store under the extension of Parker's on Tremont Street. The most refined taste has been expended in the presentation of his business. Mosaics and cut-glass stained windows and smiling Hebes here form the rule. Especial attention has been paid to render...