Word: optimistic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either as to quantity or quality. The conclusion, as stated by Mr. Bryce in his final paragraph, is scarcely gratifying to the generally cock-sure twentieth century optimist. "The bark that carries man and his fortunes traverses an ocean where the winds are variable and the currents unknown. He can do little to direct its course, and the mists that shroud the horizon hang as thick and low as they did when the voyage began...
Coach Reid said he was not an optimist nor a prophet, and that his view of the present football situation was the real one. Within the past week, he said, I have seen some of the best men on the squad laid up with injuries which will keep them from playing several weeks, and the result is that there is not enough line material to give the backs proper trying out. Although the material is not first class, the spirit is excellent, and it is the spirit which does things. The University must show this same spirit toward...
...sympathy with all human interests. His note-books show that he was a much deeper man than even his most intimate friends realized. Without any of the eccentricities of genius, Phillips Brooks stood out as the great normal man, beside whom others seemed small. He was always an optimist, because he was a devout Christian, and he was always ready to pour this spirit into men who were lacking in religion. Though successful in influencing many people, it was his great regret that he could not reach the hearts of all Harvard men with the Gospel...