Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sifting all the different advice he receives. In sifting it, in deciding upon his line of conduct, there are two fundamental questions he should ask himself. The first is, "What am I going to do for Harvard?" The second was suggested by a man who has been called the "ideal type of Harvard man"-it is, "What am I going to do for the other fellow...
There are three ways in which a man, in his special advanced work, may still keep in mind the general cause of culture and remain loyal to his true ideals: first, he should cultivate and preserve a sound literary ideal; second, he should become acquainted with the lives and ideals of the scholars who have done great work in his particular branch of study; and third, he should become conscious of the methods of work in his special field of research...
...Ezra Kidd, is perhaps as powerful and well told a sketch as needs be expected from an undergraduate pen. By far the best story in the number is "George: the Second Ghost," by E.R. Little. This glimpse of true humor, seems to us to be rather near to an ideal Advocate story...
...task of defining the present state of natural religion leads to the question,--"how has modern knowledge affected the treatment of the subject?" All religious problems depend upon ideals and facts. Facts take the form of determined objects, ideals of undetermined. Facts may or may not permit ideals to be realized; and there are many ideals which may or may not be embodied in facts. Ideals are seeking a place in the world of facts, and thus we naturally look for a supreme Being there. Is there such a Being? Is the knowledge which we have enough to warrant such...
Human civilization depends first, upon making the physical world a store-house of instruments--facts; second, upon an increasing love of our ideals. We have, then, so far, a drawn battle between the advocates of the supremacy of facts and of ideals. But the greatest of our ideals is that there are ultimate facts, objects, that is, which, were we wise enough, we ought to observe. No man has seen God,--yet neither has he seen a fact. Ultimate facts are beyond our own experience, but not beyond any experience; and to say a fact does not exist...