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...changed from a vague possibility into a probability, and almost into a certainty, and this has been done within a very few months. There is little doubt now that inside of a few years a University Club will be established at Harvard, and what has been a long-cherished ideal in the hearts of many graduates will have become a reality. The unanimity with which graduates and undergraduates have backed up the scheme leaves no room for doubt of the ultimate success of the club when once it has been organized...
...student who was fortunate enough to enter Harvard College in the sixties entered at a time of great intellectual and moral growth. During these years Emerson had kept writing about an ideal life free from the turmoils of mankind. Lowell, Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe were stirring the consciences of mankind against slavery. The words of William Lloyd Garrison were engraved upon the memories of Harvard men. The news of John Brown's raid had startled the land, and now the echo of the guns fired at Fort Sumter was heard. On Bloody Monday, 1862, the campaign was begun, which...
Professor Goodwin delivered the second of his lectures on "Plato" in the course on Greek Philosophy last evening in the Fogg Mussum. He devoted the substance of his lecture to a consideration of Plato's "Republic," in which the author tells the construction of his ideal state...
...ideal state of Plato was to be governed by the aristocracy, who should be philosophers. Plato believed that they were the only ones competent to rule a state. The true object of teaching the guardians of the state was not to show them anything new, but rather to show them things in their true light. Their minds were to be turned from the fleeting to the eternal...
...Platonic doctrine that some ideas are visible only to the soul and not to the body, is closely connected with the Platonic idea of the soul. Plato believed the soul to be immortal. He believed in an ideal world above the heavens which were the real home of souls, exiled and imprisoned on earth...