Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletes there are still debating, the college papers, and many other fields, where individual effort betters not alone the individual but also the college itself. And in this unselfish effort, this work side by side with others working for the same end, lies one of the grandest broadening influences of Harvard University...
...agree with their leaders as to methods and means, but believing in the main principle they fought with their whole soul, and there came out from the struggle great and noble men and a new nation. So it is with parties. Out from the struggle between them emerge the grandest national characters and the greatest national reforms...
...Christianity, and America, in its politics, in its commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong men. Harvard is to maintain her character for honor, manliness and Christianity, and the students who go from her are to put these truths into active and powerful expression...
...first the perfect body, the ideal mind, the heart, that is the affectionate nature. We should always sacrifice the lower for the higher, the body for the mind, the mind for the heart where the love of others demands it. But above all is the soul and the grandest thing man can do is to sacrifice every thing for the integrity of his nature...
...previously attributed to the McKinley bill, it did not touch. What it did touch it benefited, as for instance the tin industries. Also it made prosperous the woolen mills in Connecticut where before there had been destitution. We do not call the Bill perfection, but it is certainly the grandest piece of tariff legislation ever enacted in this nation...