Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students, who are left to form their religious convictions with mature thought, and not to imbibe early in life a feeling of hostility and contempt for all religion. Perhaps it is to be deplored that Harvard's proximity to Boston tends to inculcate in young minds the dilletate spirit which pervades the Athens of America. Take it all in all, though, President Eliot has accomplished a great deal even if he has not been as wholly successful as he hoped. Our immortal orator, Henry Clay, once said, 'The noblest task possible to man is to teach the young...
...audience as the old Academy of Music never before sheltered under its roof From that performance and subscriptions since received, a few thousands are already in the treasury of the permanent fund. The colleges appeal for final success to the wider circle of their friends in the same spirit of faith which of itself, and in results already splendid. is a sufficient guarantee for the worth and permanence of the School at Athens...
...example of the Harvard Classical Club is being followed by the admirers of Greece and Rome at Cornell. The current number of the Era has an account of the formation of a Classical Association whose aim it is to cultivate individual work in this field. The energetic and determined spirit which the starters of the association evinced in their meeting gives promise of a successful career. Every new assurance that the new tendencies in American education do not discard the great basis and formation of all knowledge is encouraging...
...possible for a college as such. Her methods may now without shame to her children, embrace teaching that is distinctively "university" so far as that term comprehends an advance over the old-time collegiate instruction. The instruction which lays down rules now long proved to be false in spirit and practice, must pass to give place to a wiser teaching. To Yale, as to all other institutions which, in turning their backs upon a past, have looked to a better future it may be said again, without the usual preface, vive...
...that to call attention to his work in that cause seems superfluous. He is a Williams graduate and spent the first part of his graduate life in North Adams, but six miles from Williamstown, as pastor of one of the oldest churches of that town Undoubtedly, it was the spirit of this great manufacturing centre which first called his attention to the great questions of the working classes of to-day. To the solution of these questions he has subsequently devoted most of his time. At present, Dr. Gladden is living in Columbus, Ohio; so that we shall not appreciate...