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...reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives such pleasure to lovers of Keats, and his essay on Shelley, which gives less pleasure to the friends of Shelley. Arnold was an ideal educator. He liked to go about among the schools, and he was ever on the lookout for defects in the methods of teaching. He made the greatest mistake of his critical career when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says...
...show that the present distributions of scholarships is bad is not of much use, unless some better way can be proposed. It seems to us that it would be, not an ideal system, but certainly an improvement over the present system, if scholarships were distributed as follows: Let men show that they need money, and how much money they need; let a standard rank be fixed, - for example, no mark to be less than B; let then the scholarships be distributed to all men who attain this rank and need money, in proportion to their needs...
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29 - The afternoon here was ideal for football, clear and cold to suit the players, but with a bright sun to make it easier for the spectators. Before the game began, the wind had almost entirely died out, so that neither side had any advantage on that score...
...spoke of their likenesses. The first thing that strikes us is, what happy creatures they are; for though each had her griefs, yet they had what we in this time should call extraordinary joy. They were also alike in being good, and they were all "bathed in an ideal light." They were not only idealized but ideal. In this they differ from all heroines of our modern literature, unless it be Lorna Doone...
...short of absurd. In History 13, for example, it is carried so far that each student is required to pay a small fee to meet the expense of the elaborate printing necessary for the course. Now the amount is small, but the principle seems wholly wrong, for certainly the ideal way of managing a course, at least from the student's point of view, is not to make it as formal as possible, but rather to let the management be as simple as is practicable...