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Schiller was an idealist in the true meaning of the word, continued Mr. Thayer, having as his aim an ideal which should help all mankind, a supreme love of liberty. Firm in this ideal, he passed the first part of his life protesting against the servile conditions he saw about him. From the bitter disappointment caused by the failure of the French revolution to effect the liberty and happiness he so much desired, Schiller, the true idealist, rose triumphant, and devoted the rest of his life to teaching and uplifting the character by setting up, in his works, shining examples...
...deliver three addresses returaing to Cambridge tomorrow night. This evening he will speak before the New York Round Table, a society composed largely of the school principals and teachers of New York City, on the subject of "College Entrance Examinations and the Certificate Method as Related to the Educational Ideal. Tomorrow morning he will address the New York Schoolmasters' Association on a subject not yet announced, and in the evening, in Cooper Union, he will speak under the auspices of the New York Department of Education, on "The Characteristic American Faith in Education...
...junior crew broke the record for the course in one of the prettiest races seen at Lake Whitney in a long time. The time was 4m. 47 4-5s., lowering the previous record by one-fifth of a second. The day was an ideal one, and, with the exception of a slight breeze blowing up the course, which made the time of the junior crew even more remarkable, the weather contions for rowing were perfect. A large crowd lined the banks of the lake and the sides of the first bridge. The races were very closely contested and exciting...
...building materials, brick, stone, marble and granite were unable to stand the severe tests put upon them. Concrete and terra cotta offered the greatest resistance. Concrete, however, was not exhaustively tested, and terra cotta contains clay, which expands when heated. The ideal material must be at once cheap, hard, flexible and abundant. No city has enough fireproof buildings; thus no city is exempt from such fires as the Baltimore fire...
...Maistre's ideal was a monarchical government tempered by law and the influence of the aristocracy, and, feeling that this system tended toward despotism, he tried to place kings and governments under the influence of the Pope, in whom he recognized the right to disengage a people from the duty of obedience to their sovereign...