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...This ideal of education and welldoing, as all the world knows, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has followed with rare assiduity, with an amazing versatility of means. The retelling of these sounds like the staccato popping of a high speed motor...
...assured of this: On a not far distant day the young giant America will enwreathe the portrait of the man who placed upon it the burden of honor to fight for an ideal without the hope of material return. Never before in human history has this occurred...
...main point of the Wesleyan speakers was that the present athletic program has failed to live up to what they termed the "democratic ideal". The traditional figure of the tall wagging the dog was discarded by the losers for one of more ancient derivation, that of the camel crowding the Arab out of his tent...
Incidentally the sympathetic treatment which Mr. Cummings, despite his eccentricities, his appallingly frequent parentheses, and the occasional obscurity of his symbolism, has been accorded by his reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's method of judging according to fixed principles, shows how the function of criticism has changed since the days of the supremacy of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Review...
...face of these conditions two courses are open to American universities, if they are to prove themselves worthy of the name. On the one hand they may define their function purely in terms of a high ideal of intellectual attainment and then, adopting whatever measures are necessary to effect their purpose, they must disregard the complaints of the incompetent and the indifferent...