Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...demand a higher order of work for admission to their doors, and by so doing force the preparatory schools to elevate the character of their work, we would hear less comparisons between our various colleges and find that the work of all more nearly approached the standard of the ideal university...
Throughout his life, Prof. Tyndall has been an advocate of scientific study for the simple love of truth, and, in this and many other respects, has constantly furnished an example of what the ideal student should be. The desire for personal advancement, or acquisition, has never entered his mind, and while others have delved for fame or wealth, he has simply sought the truth...
...tendency of State Socialism has been toward success. There have been but few mistakes, and the advance of this moral sentiment has been regular, and rapid. The opening of the suffrage has added to the power of the movement. The ideal of the sentiment is to make the state an organism composed of many parts, each of which shall have wishes and desires of its own embodied in the state...
...issue, one cannot help wishing that the ballad by Mr. Houghton had been inspired by a more optimistic view. The beauty of these verses is not heightened, at all events, by the gloomy theme. The other poems are graceful, but on the whole not characterized by forcible thought. The ideal portrayed by Mr. Fullerton is applicable to poetry as well as to novels...
...better purposes, and makes them firmer and finer than they could have become if directed by himself alone." The substance of the elective system is given in a single sentence, fixed quantity and quality of study, variable topic." The great moral help to students under this new ideal lies in the fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study something. . . . The will is honored as of prime...