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...must forget himself for an ideal," he continued. "Perfection is not a negative sinlessness; it does not mean solely an absence of faults, but the presence of the positive ideal of brotherhood and truth...
...stir, nor be heralded with superlatives, nor even, in all probability, be granted the attention it deserves. For it is pleasant, gentle, free from the slightest taint of flashiness; and has been written, as all books must be if they are to live, as the embodiment of a certain ideal...
...typical, too, that the ideal embodied is not an expression of blatant "modernity", but is rather a hallowing of old traditions and braver days. Each of us has, at some time or other, secretly wished for a return of the days of the America that was--the America whose husbandmen tilled each his own plot of soil, and whose sailors ploughed furrows through all the seven seas; the spirit and solidity that existed, as Mr. Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example...
...state of flux. Dissatisfaction, discussion, innovation are rife, and while many mistakes may be made, there is certain to be progress. In fact such progress is already in evidence in the extension of freedom of cuts at the University and at Princeton, a move toward the ideal of education by desire rather than by compulsion. But Columbia has taken the greatest stride of all in its plan, just announced, of abolishing mid-year and final examinations in certain trial courses and perhaps in the near future, all compulsory attendance at classes...
...short Columbia is leaping to the final ideal of college education without any of the preliminary steps, and therefore it may "o'erleap itself and fall on the other". The experiment is one of absorbing interest and one may well hope for its success. But in case of failure, one must remember that the ideal has scarcely been tried under fair conditions and should therefore not, as an ideal, be condemned...