Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...know whether many among you are acquainted with the fact that Cola di Rienzo, the Roman tribune of the fourteenth century, is the real founder of the modern archaeological school, and that to him must be attributed the important share of praise and glory, as regards the renaissance of classical studies, which has been almost exclusively bestowed upon Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petraca. Archaeology is founded on an absolute critic inquiry, on the comparison of antique monuments and with written and engraved documents. Archaeology is a science which, differing from others, begins to repay at once the zeal...
...gather up his life, the man knows himself more than the individual; the whole humanity to which he belongs grows dear to him." The greatest benefit of the celebration just over is the lasting influence of its inspiration, in giving the students at once a clear conception of the real meaning of college work. There is not a man who has not been lifted up above the drudgery of every-day work and been shown the true great meaning of the whole in its relation with the outside world. We all feel an inspiration to attack the work with...
Whatever is done to give Yale '90 a race, it is to be hoped the old time Harvard-Columbia alliance will not be split to admit her again, and it must be remembered that Yale was admitted last year more from foolish courtesy than from real desire or enthusiasm...
...faithfully does his one thing, year after year, his relations to other things which other men are doing, but which he will never do, and to the whole of life in which his thing and all those other things are included, opens around him and becomes real to him, and he becomes more and more to be not only the shoemaker and tailor, but also the man. If that broadening is not always going on he is not working faithfully. So every time, action in any sphere makes real the larger sphere in which we live. Long service...
...yard? Would they be but a mockery of the baser thoughts of life, the lower ideas of learning which the wood contains. Alas for the college if that be so; for only when a great university cultivates character and insists on righteousness because so only can she know the real truth concerning the divine and human, concerning God and man, only then has she claimed her place within that power which bridges the eternities, only then has she really given herself to Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and forever...