Word: ideals
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...ideal scrub is exceedingly primitive in his habits. His hands are indifferently employed for many purposes for which the artificial appliances of civilization have long been in use, while the flowing bowl - especially if it contain water for purposes of ablution - is spurned with magnificent consistency. The contents of his fingernails would give interesting and engrossing employment for a couple of days to the average chemist. His hair, if it chance to be curly, is allowed to curl unchecked over his manly brow; if nature has made it straight, it wanders forlornly about in every direction until some compassionate barber...
...While matter divides and subdivides itself till it is finally lost in the endlessness of the process, the ideal is one and absorbs the diversity of the material into itself...
...matter, but the "wholes amid which alone the spirit feels at home, and the atoms or points with which science has to do." It is only by an honest synthesis in our minds of the results of the analysis of science that we can reach the glory of the ideal...
...everything merely as an end. Both views are true when taken together; the relation of one part of the universe to another is that of the parts of a great painting which are true in themselves, but lack something unless united. Upon this view rests the belief in the "ideal element which is the life of all things," and which, "taking up into itself all the results of our analysis, assumes a grandeur and a glory that had never been possible before." Here, then, is the gain of History, that in this age, "by the combination and utilization...
...lamentable ignorance of a Freshman, - quite a high scholar in general reading, by the way - is cited, who readily believed that "the great Warren Hastings impeachment was going on in New York, with Edmund Burke and Wendell Phillips engaged in the case." Whatever charms vacation may have for the ideal Harvard shirk, few would grudge a moderate amount of work in the cool days of September, to be free from two weekly hours of recitation, and those dreary night hours before an inevitable examination. A little study can do wonders, and '77 will probably show its wisdom for the good...