Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...foresee in the future history of art. Will not America, original and successful as she is in her form of government, educational institutions, and business enterprises, be able to throw some new vitality and vigor into art? That, with all her greenness, she has a bent in the right direction, is evidenced by her appreciation of foreign art and the number of Americans to be found everywhere on the Continent in the pursuit of art studies, as well as by the ever-increasing array of native artists. Whether these beginnings will receive sufficient support and encouragement to result in anything...
...viewing the triumph of wrong o'er right...
...popular men in college, that they obtain their position by "being politic," that is, by seizing all opportunities of insinuating themselves into the good graces of their companions, embracing all occasions of placing themselves prominently forward, and perhaps by treading over the timid and cautious and by assuming a right and power, which is yielded to them, not because they have any claims to what they assume, but because others have not the courage nor inclination to dispute or compete with them...
...philosophic height, and with him we learn to look down upon our fellow-men or upon our own natures. We may close the book and declare that Carlyle is the "Prince of Cynics," but we have felt and thought with him, and are inclined to acknowledge that he is right. The particular weakness he has exposed we regard with a scorn which has no mixture of pity. We may blame him for his quickness in discovering our vices and our failings, or for his slowness to appreciate our virtues; we may complain that he seeks the disease rather than...
...mental faculties might not have received a higher cultivation, thus rendering him capable of greater advancement in after life. The Intercollegiate Scholarship will not be a sure test. It will not follow that the system of the college sending the winning candidate in any particular year is all right, and that the others are all wrong; but if the prize is taken for many successive years by the same college, or by several whose modes of instruction are similar, it will behoove the unsuccessful academies to look to the differences between themselves and the former, and see whether there...