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...huddle of sticks and if one breaks we all break; the surest way for one to raise himself is to raise and honor the college. It is not the man who only tries to benefit himself, but he who now fights best for Harvard, who makes Harvard his ideal, that will later make his country his ideal. Sometimes men say they try hard to do a good work, then do not receive social recognition. Surely he does not need more recognition than that which comes to him from being on a winning team. What does he want with the little...
...Walter Pater's ideal conduct as set forth in Marius the Epicurean...
...letters of Edward Fitzgerald, said Mr. Copeland, come nearer the epistolary ideal than any of those in the list just enumerated. The late Alexander Dumas is reported to have said that a play should contain a picture, an ideal, and a judgment. One of these elements, the picture-said the speaker-should have a place in the ideal letter. It should also, if may be, contain an incident; and it should be composed with an exquisite union of correctness and ease. The letters of the poet Cowper are, on the whole, the best in the language, and Fitzgerald's often...
...McPherson spoke of the necessity of faith in our modern life and read several passages in the Old and New Testaments, exemplifying the ideal of simple trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision...
...present used, has been debated many times in the Unions, societies, and less formal debates. The Princeton honor system is the main subject for discussion, as the conditions there are more like those at Yale than any other college. The Princeton system is far from being an ideal one and its adoption here would be generally deplored, but as it is a decided improvement over the present Yale methods, its use would certainly bear good results. Something definite should certainly be done here to stamp out that form of dishonesty so often seen, and an improvement in general opinion would...