Word: noblest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eyes are on the future. It is living in today and tomorrow, not yesterday. Its vision is clear and its heart sound. It is safe to predict that in the momentous election in which it will participate this year for the first time it will be guided by the noblest of motives to which the human mind is capable of responding, for it is to such motives that youth has always responded. The certainty that youth will be on the side of national honor, faith and integrity is one of the comforting reflections of the hour. It promises to marshal...
...trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability, can meet all classes on the common, equal level of privilege and opportunity; be treated as a brother and equal; and thus become inspired with the noblest impulses that can thrill the human soul--the ambition to lift up his head in the sunlight of hope and thank God and take on new courage...
...vital." Even the conclusion, in which the heroine throws over the Open Hearth rather than lose her life-long lover, leaves a suspicion that perhaps the author retains a conviction that to be a Boy Scout Leader or the Coach of an Uplift Nine is after all the noblest ambition of Young American Manhood. Mr. Murdock's story is shorter, and laid right here in Cambridge--Memorial clock strikes nine, and the streets are covered with slush, and all that sort of thing--but it is still further away from life as most of us know it. There...
...porch, the white door with its brass knocker and fanlight, along with the iron railing on the balcony above tipped with brass knobs, all add unusual features to the "street of clubs." Harvard Hall, heart of the club, formerly the dining room, now the lounge, has been pronounced the noblest and one of the most beautiful rooms in America...
...Harvard literary; as a result neither is truly representative. This matter of a literary organ may at first blush appear trivial, yet after a moment of thought it will be perceived that it is really of great importance. The literary organ of the College should express the noblest and finest and best that has been thought or felt in our community. Its service should be to stimulate and clarify both thought and beauty of expression in the authors and in their classmates who read their productions. Moreover, it should stand as representative to the outside world of the undergraduate culture...