Word: summum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should ever come to the University, they too would doubtless receive their deserts and march out, diploma in hand, in a glow of fame. The demands upon teachers, on the other hand, do to a certain extent exist; but the idea of making one or more degrees the summum bonum, sine quanon, be-all and end-all of secondary school instructors is not to be laid at the door of the colleges. If an M.A. is requisite for teachers in, Boston high schools, it is because the administrators of those schools have so ordained...
...ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum bonum of college life, intellectual inspiration...
...hang any laurel wreaths that may happen to win, something, too, which will make them careless whether they ever win the laurels. When activity, subways full of straphangers, overhead, turnover, widgets, gross profits, and your picture on the front page of a gum-chewer's sheetlet are not the summum bonnet of college graduate, and the emphasis is not on what goes out of college, but on what comes in and why, the Messrs. Andrus of the world will be out of jobs as oracles...
...history as the premier who settled the Irish question than as the one who defeated Germany. (Though it is fair to add that this statement was made after the war.) And there have been many men to whom an amicable peace between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful but obvious duty to crush them. Yet he was puzzled. So was William before...
...minor annoyances of mid-years. To the man for whom studies are merely an unpleasant corollary of college life, it is painful to have to choose new courses when he has barely come through the ordeal of the old ones. To the man to whom studies are the summum bonum, it is painful to contemplate the pamphlet known as "Courses of Instruction" and consider what a small fraction of possible education he is able to take. But in either case it has to be done, and done at once. Our familiar habit of leaving everything until the last possible moment...