Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., the first speaker for Yale, said: "The income tax law of 1894 was an unnecessary revenue measure. We do not oppose an ideal tax, but the income tax law was passed to meet a deficit which should have been met by economy. It was sectional, too; an attack on the east by the west and the south. The income tax law of 1894 was vicious as a practical measure and violates every principle upon which a genuine income tax is based. The law was an attack of socialists and populists upon capital...
...merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high is of course absurd, but it is extremely disagreeable...
...interest in the Bible lies not in its literary qualities, but in the wonderful character that it describes. We must have obtained this conception of Christ in one of three ways. Either the evangelists were true historians, or else falsifiers, or had evolved this ideal from the stories of the great men of former history. If the disciples were false, how could they have invented a story so wonderful and at the same time so consistent? If the Gospel is true, it must be regarded as integral, and the resurrection as a necessary part of it. The facts...
...most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects reaches far beyond the men immediately concerned. The mere winning or losing of a race may in itself be of little importance. The ennobling thing after all in athletics is the self-forgetful striving after an ideal and whether that ideal is the championship of class or college the striving is a good thing...
...under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best get at home, is the foundation of ideal on which his life is to be built, and on the strength of which depends not only his pleasure but his success when he at last comes to shift for himself. There are more qualities that go to the making of a man than self-reliance, which well becomes only...