Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...When these gaps are well filled Harvard's free and liberal system will firmly secure to her the position which she now holds by a somewhat frail tenure, that of the foremost American universities. In spite of many faults and failures, she is already not far from what the ideal American school should...
...precisely the former plan, it may be remarked, that includes Harvard's ideal of an American university. Towards the realization of such a plan she has already advanced a long way. In many respects her position at present is one of transition; her course but marks the change from the older to the newer methods of instruction - from college to university life...
...Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution of crew training and its effects. The ideal which reasonably co-ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne out by such a showing as is presented by these statistics. The thinly disguised doctrine of monastic denial and scorn of physical culture, which Dr. Crosby is trying to revive in this country, stands...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Boston Ideal Opera Company in "Chimes of Normandie." Performance...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Boston Ideal Opera Company in "Patience." Performance...