Word: true
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article in the North American Review of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard," is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...
...gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something more than whether Grover Cleveland has maintained his party pledges or whether Free Trade was sent to the earth by a devil to a snare to England and the United States. It is true that Harvard has been always for the best for the country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge stated, her shield bore these matters and not one of them was a special invitation to either political party. It would hardly be too severe to call it sacrilege...
...highest possibilities in him which by Christ's aid can be carried out. We are children of God, not of Darkness. We talk of man's character as being a separate thing from his spiritual nature, but a christian is nothing but a man with a true character. The fullest human life is the fnllest human experience...
...they so desire. The writer of the article in question has adopted the usual method of a coward at heart. Running throughout his pages there is a half-concealed malignity towards our beloved institution that must be apparent not only to every Harvard student who is acquainted with the true state of things existing here, but also to reader who is ignorant of Harvard's methods and customs. In his concluding sentence, the writer meets the cry of misrepresentation that he knows is sure to rise against him by asserting that it is not his business to write...
...talk is to modulate; give your words the proper coloring. To say everything is to say too much: true art lies between. Speak so that the most vulgar prose may sound like the most refined poetry...