Word: true
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that...
...chances of being advanced to a club table, at present 1 man in 3 gets to a club table in four years. Under the resolution it is true 144 men are added at the start, but how will it be in the future? Only about 1 man in 2 will get to the clubs, whereas if the other scheme is adopted, there will be an end to this computation of chances. Every man will be at a club table. When one man will reach a club table in four years there is no good reason why the other must remain...
...argument in favor of the all-club system is that under it all members of the association are on a footing of absolute equality. That such should be the case is the clear dictate of simple justice. In a new hall this would doubtless be true; but it does not on that account hold good in Memorial, where the present system has been developed...
...movement of the race toward an unattainable perfection. In progress there is always a tendency to reaction. Conversion is a reaction, a putting away of old associations. The progress in science, which seemed to question some religious beliefs, brought about a reaction in the belief in one absolutely true religion...
...amusements we often magnify unimportant things and leave unnoticed the more important. It is so in religious life. We often emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural relation suggests instead of following our own hasty impulses and opinions, we should avoid a great deal of worry and trouble. The thing for us to do is to place ourselves, or seek to be placed, at some central point of view from which...