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...this aniversary could escape being thrilled at the thought of what this commemoration means. It brings to mind events which, in the course of the century and a half that has passed since the day we are celebrating, have changed the course of human history. Then was formed the ideal of the American nation...
...each). Speaking of one of Pittsburgh's native sons, said he: "I need scarcely tell you that Mr. Mellon is of the class which regards property as sacred and feels that the bigger the property the more sacred it is. Raised in a bank, big finance has been his ideal. It has been his religion and Wall Street his mother church...
Harvard is probably further removed than any other American college, from the trappings and conventional attributes of the secondary school. It is a University as nearly in the ideal sense of the word as is possible at this time and in this country. It is distinctly an institution of higher learning, and is becoming less and less a "college" in the present American acceptance of the term...
...Blessed John Vercelli. Organized in Portugal, the Holy Name Society spread through Europe and eventually came to its fullest fruition in the U. S. Originally, it was, in part, regarded as reparation for the "blasphemous Albigensian heresies." Purpose. The Society lays peculiar emphasis on purity of speech. But this ideal is extended to include purity of thought and life. "It gives its members," said a Bishop, "just that amount of moral suasion to keep them loyal to the regular reception of the sacraments." Function. It serves to organize laymen for the general welfare of the Church...
...vain if it is contradicted by the spirit or atmosphere of the student's home, you feel bound to carry the opportunity of education into that home, and your school or college is embarked on adult education. So much the better. Thus will end the rubber stamp the stereotype ideal of training, which now lingers chiefly in certain small places where all the students take the same course and develop the same taste in dress...