Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the Record is more conservative than even its surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates in an education which shall adapt it, self to the pressing necessities of life, and be in harmony with the spirit of the times. Yale never occupied as favorable a position in the eyes of the public as at the present time. While vigorously defending whatever has been most...
Alas that the reality is so far from embodying your ideal! The twelve hundred books stand boldly out into the room. Simplicity, to speak moderately, reigns everywhere. She appears, in not her most attractive form, in the Franklin stove. She stares blankly at you from her "BOOKS RETURNED," and "BOOKS RECEIVED," which are pasted on the wall over the narrow mantel-piece, and which indicate that there is to be found the connection between the Annex and the Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway...
...others will adopt law or journalism or the ministry. This assumption, once at least, explicitly stated, is the most striking peculiarity in the address which Mr. Irving delivered in the Sanders Theatre Monday evening. The intelligence, the elevated tone and the dignity of the lecture, and the high ideal of his art presented by the speaker, were very noteworthy...
...must again arouse himself and seek for something more that shall give him legislative and executive power. Indeed, he would ask for this power to-day, did he not know that he who is greedy often loses all. His hopes are that what now to may seems so ideal may, in the end, become quite real and present, that the existing college government may evolve into a government by faculty and students, conducted in unity and harmony, and attended-as he believes it would be-by vigorous life and unquestionable prosperity...
...country, we felt justly confident that this petition would produce the desired effect. But the authorities by whom Harvard is governed are not troubled by that vice of small minds-consistency. While making the most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged...