Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...influence and is responsible for it. During the last twenty years there has been a tendency to magnify the savage virtues, really destructive to the mental as well as to the physical powers and not essential to true manliness. The physical and moral powers lead on eventually to the happiest and most serviceable life in after years. And for happiness and for serviceableness a man must possess vigor, purity, honor...
...custom. I believe that the scrimmage about the Tree is not only an old custom but a good one. I believe that it can be and has been conducted in a manly, fair way, and that hundreds of graduates look back upon it as one of their happiest. Class Day memories. The customs and traditions that are left to Harvard men are few enough, and we should treasure those few jealously. It may be too late for us to save this cherished ceremony, but we owe it to ourselves as Harvard men; we owe it to the graduates who have...
...Discourses, Reynolds ranked historical painting as the highest art. He said that the mere copier of nature could do nothing good, and that the greatest artist is he who most appeals to the imagination. Reynolds did not follow in practice what he believed in theory. His happiest efforts are those in which he followed the precepts of Dutch and Venetian Schools...
...University, he said, would never be all that it was intended to be, nor would the work of the preachers be all that it ought to be until they should be sought by the students in their office of college pastor. He showed that this duty was the happiest part of the preacher's duty. That it was a misconception to suppose that only those students who intended to be ministers could profit by the opportunity of meeting the University preachers personally - not as teacher and student, but as man and man. The preachers did not belong to the disciplinary...
After all, I am driven back to my Vergil again, you see, for the happiest expression of what I was trying to say. It was these shy allurements and provocations of Omar Khayyam's Persian which led Fitzgerald to many a peerless phrase and made an original poet of him in the very act of translating. I cite this instance merely by way of hint that as a spur to the mind, as an open-sesame to the treasures of our native vocabulary, the study of a living language (for literary, not linguistic, ends) may serve as well as that...