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...considering the organization of a system for establishing and maintaining world peace, we must refrain from over idealization; although we look to an ideal to which our proposed system aims to attain, our principal attention must be focused on the factors to be considered at the birth and during the infancy of our system...
...make even one valuable objection. There may not be a "high seriousness" in evidence, but there is a delightful tickling of the aesthetic senses. And so Aristotle might not have thought of "Pierrot the Prodigal" as the highest form of "kitharsis" but he would unquestionably have called it an ideal evening's entertainment...
...favor of some form of universal military train- ing?", but "Are you in favor of any system of universal military training which is made compulsory?" And on this question, involving a departure from the spirit and tradition of America and from what we have conceived to be the ideal of all government as deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed, Harvard is asked to register a categorical opinion without any opportunity to give the question that deliberate consideration which its importance makes it deserve. Under these circumstances the result will signify little else than a generous desire...
Wendell's influence will live; for he has made the Harvard ideal of English synonymous with the Wendell ideal, and able men trained in the Wendell school of thinking will carry on the work which he has so successfully begun. Cleveland Plain Dealer
...strong and self-confident opinions and positive expression, he was a kindly spirit, hospitable, generous, appreciative of others. His mental energy seemed limitless, his industry tireless, his optimism unquenchable. He exemplified his own ideal of productive scholarship, and carried to the grave with him plans for more books than most of us would think of achieving in a lifetime