Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology for being is their beauty. If we compare the spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which was the nobler and most inspiring. And it was curious to see at the time the Atlantic cable was laid how much more the political and moral significance of the achievement was dwelt on than the commercial...
...this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better able to make money than their fellows, or to teach them to be sharp enough to outwit those less fortunate than themselves, but it is to make men broader, nobler and stronger, morally and intellectually, so that when they go out in the world they may have something to sacrifice to the good of the country...
back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other...
...home and friends to go to a foreign country where everything is uncertain, is not so inviting as work in one's own country. Yetan earnest, fearless spirit will not be daunted by this, and college men who feel themselves naturally fitted for foreign missionary work, can do nothing nobler than to go into...
...left the University in the last few years will be deeply interested in the matter. Mr. Bolles had as the central idea and the chief motive of his life here at Harvard, the support of everything which tended to build up the University and to make it better and nobler. And in his support he included movements started by the authorities, by the graduates, and by the undergraduates; but it is fair to say that to the latter class, the undergraduates, he attached his greatest sympathy and affection. To help the undergraduates, no matter how much self-sacrifice it called...