Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...confess that our ideal is a committee which should have some authority for self-perpetuation. Until we secure one man who will direct the football policy indefinitely we shall be in the position of the country of fortnightly revolutions which is assailed by an established power. The committee with possibilities of permanence seems, however, to approximate the one man idea more nearly than an annual appointment by the captain...
...article is sound. The men who offer the strongest inspirations of our academic life are those to whom America must look for the advancement of its scholarship. But we think that both the Nation and Mr. Wister, in urging their point, have neglected the position of the undergraduate. Their ideal is that of progress in unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems nobler than...
...Florence and the Cities of Northern Tuscany," by W. E. Hutton '95; "The British State Telegraphs," by H. R. Meyer '92: "The History of Music to the Death of Schubert," by J. K. Paine '69; "The Power that Makes for Peace," by H. S. Pritchett h.'01; "The Democratic Ideal," by M. Reed '68; "The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns," by F. P. Stearns '67; "The Science of Ethics," by L. Stephen h.'90; "Mary Porter Gamewell," by A. H. Tuttle '83; "The Cricket's Song," by H. E. Warner '82; "God's Message to the Human...
...patriotism, to our ambition. The prosperity of a country depends not alone on its showing in trade, but on its possession of a surplus in brains. We have only a few men who have achieved distinction in scholarship. All honor to them for their fidelity to the intellectual ideal, their devotion to the best scholarship! With these stands a larger group, and in it there are the names of many Harvard men-Goodwin, Richards, James, Royce, Pickering. Harvard surely is at the head in America, but at the head of what? At the head of a country where the balance...
...Howells h. '67; "Quantitative Punctuations," by J. D. Logan '94; "Whose Home is in the Wilderness," by W. J. Long '92; "Athens and About There," by P. S. Marden l. '98; "Cathedral Cities of France," by H. L. Marshall '02; "Abroad the Hylow," by J. Otis '81; "The Democratic Ideal," by M. Reed '68; "Admiral's Light," by H. M. Rideout '99; "What Rollins '80; "The Development and Chronology of Chaucer's Works," by J. S. Tatlock...