Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Griffin, L. S., then ably introduced the negative side of the question. He reviewed the platform of the republican party touching upon the public schools and metropolitan police system. Under the republican rule the system of high license has been established, which is acknowledged as the ideal system of license. The attitude of the democrats toward the public schools is weakening if not destructive. Finally he referred to the complaint offered by the democrats to the small type used on the ballot which they claim the uneducated would have difficulty in reading...
...verse of the twelfth chapter of Genesis. We live in three worlds as it were, he said, the actual world, a border land filled with thoughts and passion, and the realm beyond. The possession of well being and happiness is not in the actual, but in searching after the ideal; therefore, happy is the man who can look forward to that excellence, but alas for him whose ideas are destroyed. The choir sang the following selections: The Son of God goes forth to war; What are these that are arrayed in white robes-Stainer; And the City had no need...
Further you can serve the college by a wise course of elective studies. This freedom is the greatest advance made yet by any American college, and although its utility is doubted by outsiders it is apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...
...appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect himself as a scholar by having a genuine knowledge of all he has touched upon. In professional and business life, also, graduates...
...isolated being, but out of his consciousness that only from his associations with those about him can there arise anything to cause in him a worthy self-respect. Dr. Peabody applied the thought to the student, and in a broader sense to the University. He spoke also, of the ideal Harvard, which shall be, not a bulwark against ignorance, not a hall of learning, but a temple...