Word: true
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...therefore defied and worshipped him. Through all the ages Homer's place in literature has received as little injury from the hands of assailants as his statue in the temple at Delphi received at the hands of Xerxes' invading soldiers, and today we feel a reverence for him as true if not as humble as that of the Greeks...
...wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion to the population. If she does the latter, they will hold their rightful numbers, and her second degrees will increase in value as a badge of true learning...
...Carpenter is one of the most valuable articles which have appeared in the Monthly. It is a study of the laws of criticism with an estimate of the influences of Saints Beuve upon Matthew Arnold. The writer's words impress upon us the dignity of the work of the true critic. The thoughts of Mr. Carpenter deserve to be taken to heart...
...protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...
...have marked the change form the narrow atmosphere and petty restrictions of a school in which the result is to extract from the pupil a fixed amount of work and exact from him a strict obedience to a body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary for the maintenance of order and of honor and to satisfy his instructors that he is making a reasonable...