Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elsewhere to induce the young men of the country to adopt her antiquated systems? Or must an attempt be made to overpersuade, through friendship and social ties formed at school, young and undecided students who are too frequently led "to join the majority?" It is not strange that the spirit of Yale should prove more congenial to young men reared on the breezy plains of the great West, but when an attempt is made to force that spirit into schools composed of young men who have in the past shown a wise depreciation of it, some comment and even criticism...
...best scholars did not long remain in one place, but became travelling teachers. We must trace then, how these men began to co-operate in the prosecution of their studies, and how thereby they formed educational centres. In the middle ages there was, in truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries, and the orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations of to-day. The word University is often missed or misunderstood. The latin Universitas means nothing more than...
...this throng come up, out of the bustle and strife of the forum and the market place, to our academic seat? What spirit stirs this multitude to-day? You have come to pay homage to the university of your love, and through it to all universities; because in them truth is sought, knowledge increased and stored, literature, science and art are fostered, and honor, duty, and piety are taught. The spirit in which you come is a spirit of profound and well-grounded hopefulness...
...make, foes must meet and own their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal and eternal truth and duty, the essential unity of all good things shall be made manifest and clear. How can we better close than with these words out of the same epistle to the Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ...
...striking fact that during the ten years or so following the coming of Winthrop, the two great English Universities sent into this wilderness fully a hundred of their best men, to strengthen the purpose and tone the spirit of the new settlement. It is not too much to say that in the history of colonization, ancient or modern, never before and never again has learning ever entered so deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population...