Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...education that is not scholasticism, but the co-ordinating of all the gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type of man; though he must go before his followers he must not be detached from them, that is, he must be human. He should be to the masses what a motive is to the individual; he stirs them up to motion; he seeks...
...became Bishop Suffragan of Stepney. In 1901 he was appointed Bishop of London. Bishop Ingram is a comparatively young man for his position, as he is not yet 50 years old; but he is a remarkably hardworking, earnest and able man, a stern and straightforward speaker and preacher. His work has been largely among the poorer classes in big cities, where he has studied their life and condition very closely...
Yesterday's CRIMSON editorial on "The Service at Gore Hall" moves me to convey to you thus publicly my humble gratitude for your straightforward (though temperately phrased) comments anent the policing of the Library. (In my thoughtlessness I had almost said "our" Library.) This sort of service--secret service--one expects in the distributing stations of large city libraries, where individual attachments between books and readers are characteristically close, and where every person is under suspicion of being a thief until he is beyond the reach of temptation; but when members of the University are honored by the hirelings...
...stories, "Little Brother" is undoubtedly the best. Its characters are Harvard men who do not "merely sleep in Cambridge," as a recent reviewer has remarked of most undergraduate heroes of fiction; it has atmosphere and color, and a sufficient plot; and in its fundamental idea that straightforward honesty is the surest means of success it emphasizes one of the most cherished of Harvard ideals. The other two stories are well written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn...
...third "Travel Paper of Arminius," is literary chat of a cheerful and graceful sort, showing observation and descriptive skill. "Arlin the Thief" is written in clear, straightforward English but with somewhat inadequate power. In "The Vision of Unfulfilled Desire" the dialogue is not thoroughly effective; but the study of perfunctory married life, made worse by the woman's effort to better it, is well conceived...