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...thirteen hundred, and board would then be so mewhat cheaper; therefore, say they, let us have the thirteen hundred. Now against such a policy we emphatically protest. That the capacity of Memorial Hall should be tested by its kitchen might be a necessity, but let it never be an ideal. Memorial Hall administers not only to the stomachs, but also to the minds of students, and better that a little more should be paid for the privileges of the hall than that the minds should be disregarded. The general table system, with its hustle, dirt, and promiscuousness...
...science and the understanding, seeks to give ideal expression to those abiding realities of the spiritual world for which the outward and visible world serves at best but as the husk and symbol. Am I wrong in using the word realities? wrong in insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks...
back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other...
...Christ, who was in turn the medium for transferring the personality of God. It is the same way in our life. We are moulded into separate individualities by the greater personalities of the world who have influence over us, and it is thus that our soul is developed. The ideal forces of all time have been wielded by personality, and that of Christ has been of greater influence than any other in the knowledge of man. All greatness and goodness was centered...
...around him. If we examine closely the life of those who have done the most to help the world we may see in them all this common trait, that each lived not for himself but for others. The truest and most characteristic summary of the work of the ideal and Master of us all is what one of those nearest Him said of Him-"He went about doing good...