Word: ends
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...athletic spirit, will ever come back; nor is it desirable that it should. Our athletics must in the future be conducted on a broader basis than they have been in the past. They are now rapidly coming to be regarded as one of the means to the great end of education-broad and systematic culture of all the faculties-and not as an end in themselves, worthy of cultivation for themselves primarily. This, of course, subordinates them to all things more important in securing the real end of education, but at the same time gives them a dignity...
...literature as antagonistic, but see that the study of philology is good, and of literature better. Students should be encouraged to take the course in modern languages as being quite as good in point of discipline as any other, if pursued with the same thoroughness and to the same end; and that end should be literature. There, and there only, can we learn what man is and what man may be, for it is nothing else than the autobiography of man kind...