Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school is now in a position of great strength. It has a well-high perfect building, a well-chosen library, which is steadily increased and improved, hard working and competent teachers in the prime of their powers, an enthusiastic body of students, and a large number of loyal alumni scattered all over the country in positions of influence and trust. What the school needs is more teaching and more scholarships...
...just and proper for the heads of institutions to believe in his work. But to deny the necessity of improvement is unworthy of an educated man, much more of the president of a university. The great man of to-day must believe in great possibilities not in either a perfect or an incurable present...
...CRIMSON. They are so well worn and old that we have been even accused of inserting them regularly whenever there was a lack of fresh ideas to supply the mighty engines of our brains. This is a hopeful sign. It indicates that old Harvard is such a perfect college that there exist only two or three imperfections to make its perfections felt...
...should be a large-minded and fair man in his search for truth in all his studies and investigations. The truth should be his light, and the end of his seeking should be the perfect light. He should judge all, both men and things, according to their true value, holding wealth and station in less esteem than character, the purpose of his education from its beginning...
...Tennyson and Pessimism." In this essay Professor Royce endeavors to show that Tennyson has neither changed nor fallen into the hopeless and pessimistic ideas of old age, as so many have lately said, in his "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," but that he has really come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright by an optimistic vision. In the "Locksley Hall Sixty...