Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...think of him as one who never inflicts pain, the gentleman cannot retain his integrity and let pass unnoticed the acquaintance whose hand he has over grasped and who is one with him in a great and, as we are fond of thinking, an ideal society of scholars. UNDERGRADUATE...
...seem rather unnecessary to those who have had no experience with class officers, and the basis of it may seem less real than imagined. To some of us, however, the chance has been given to see a concrete example of class administration which has pointed the way to an ideal. We know that a class officer can be the representative of the class as a body, while he also comes more and more to be the friend of each individual man. We have come to feel that a class should set this standard for its officers. Therefore, while...
...desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief in an eternal source of energy and life, reverence for the past all tend to strengthen one's faith in an ideal which makes rational moral action attractive...
...first duty is the duty of a witness; he should witness to God, not only by word of mouth, but also by cheerful worship and by faithful and sincere service. The doctrine of Christianity has always been the doctrine of energy and of work, and though it presents the ideal, it is eminently practical; the Christian is called, not to evolve new explanations of truth, but to live up to the truth as he has it, not to create a new order of society, but to sweeten and purify that in which he has been placed...
...Harvard ideal of debating has two essentials: good "form" and argument backed by evidence. Though "form," or the method of presentation, is not given as great consideration as argument, its importance is always recognized in the selection of judges chosen to pick a team to represent the University. Upon every such board of judges is one who is an authority on platform sheaking. The most approved manner of presentation is the deliberate and undemonstrative in distinction to the oratorical or campaign style. The common trait of the best University debaters of the past has been a faculty of combining with...