Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter, that if only a man like Col. Bancroft could be found to take charge of our field athletics, the faculty would be only too glad to appoint such a man. Thus, a year ago, Col. Bancroft was held up to us by the Athletic Committee as almost an ideal instructor in athletics; no charge of "professionalism" was then made against him, hut just the contrary; and further, the thought of objecting to the coach of the crew on the ground of too great expense, seems never to have entered the minds of the Committee a year ago. These facts...
...Republic held no public office at the time of his nomination, a fact which ranks James G. Blaine with "the great of old." Finally let us lay our leaf of laurel on the shrine of him who for twenty years as statesman, scholar, and public man, has been the ideal and the impersonation of the genius of our institutions...
...Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, fellows and teachers in Emmanuel College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that the statue, only by influencing the mind, eye and thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation of the man. It is indeed true that an ideal model is a fit one to take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait...
...them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust of Emerson. In his pretty little studio at Concord the work of modeling has been done and the casting has just been completed at the works of Bounard at New York. The face of the statute is necessarily an ideal one as no representation of Harvard is extant. All that is known of him, on which to work, are the facts that he was young, studious and a dissenting minister...
Some hundred years ago, when the college was yet young, the requisition for entrance was "to read and converse in easy Greek and Latin," and although candidates for admission did not come up to the present ideal in classical knowledge, still it must be confessed that they made the crude attempt of a system soon to become universal. Until quite recently the method pursued in the study of languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound...