Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view of the demands of the modern spirit upon our colleges, so well expressed by President Eliot in this article, it is pleasant to reflect that Harvard falls short of the requirements of the new ideal perhaps as little as any college in America, with possibly one exception, and that in the department of historical study so notably patronized by President Eliot, her position is that of a leader. Already the fame of the college in attracting the more serious students of the higher branches has been largely increased by the widespread reputation of its history department. With eighteen regular...
...Progress," Loring's "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt," Sherwood's "Manners and Social Usages." Politics"-An introduction to the study of Comparative Constitutional Law, by Crane and Moses, Hallowell's "James and Lucretia Mott," Robert's "Government Revenue," Carnegie's "Round the World," Bunce's "My House"-an Ideal, Howell's "Three Villages," "Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse," etc., Biographical Sketch and Letters, June Magazines...
...Progress," Loring's "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt," Sherwood's "Manners and Social Usages." Politics-An introduction to the study of "Comparative Constitutional Law," by Crane and Moses, Hallowell's "James and Lucretia Mott," Robert's "Government Revenue," Carnegie's "Round the World," Bunce's "My House"-an Ideal, Howell's "Three Villages," "Alica, Grand Duchess of Hesse," etc., Biographical Sketch and Letters, June Magazines...
...think that the new regulation is at all in conflict with the rights that the faculty has always reserved for itself, but still it is a tacit recognition of the fact that the high ideal set by Harvard has proved to be unattainable in America, at least under existing circumstances...
Harvard College and most other colleges, have been run in years past on too ideal a plan; practical methods are what are needed now. The overseers must be chosen who represent the sentiment of the alumni on the important questions that are to be handled by those overseers, and we think that the question of voluntary prayers is an important one. The state of affairs at present is in direct opposition to the tendencies of the time, and especially contrary to the spirit that regulates Harvard, and should be done away with. Any man who has not given this important...