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...those who wished to hear the glee clubs sing music worth singing, - this nonsense music has been given up for a style which, while still keeping an amusing element, contains much more musical worth. The kind of music which the college man writes today is by no means ideal; it might well be more serious and ambitious without losing, any of its distinctively college character, but it is far more satisfactory than the music produced a few years...
...argument which in the end determined my allegiance was this: The apparent and probably true ideal of the Southern people was the maintenance of States' rights. With this desire I was in sympathy; but, granting that the South should win its independence, it was evident that the Northern and the Southern States would be driven by their permanent hostility to each other to change from the type of federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every...
...socialistic community would it be impossible to establish or to follow any ideal standard for the just distribution of the income of the community...
...Plato justified in thinking Dramatic Poetry injurious to his ideal State? (Plato; The Republic; Sir Philip Sidney; Defense of Poesie...
...keep the feeling of kinship among those who speak the same language and have inherited the same customs. It would strengthen that healthy liking of out-door sports, which the British have alone maintained in Europe since the Greeks degenerated. It would symbolize also to some extent that great ideal of the training of a nation, the harmonious discipline of the body and of the mind...