Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been urged, and it may be so, that the ideal method would be to have sport endowed, so that there would be no gate receipts, and that admission should be by invitation. There would be an excellent opportunity for some interested graduate to try the experiment by setting aside a sufficient sum to support fencing or wrestling in the University. The cost of fencing instructor and the expenses of the fencing team would not exceed $1000 per annum. As it is now, without the gate receipts from football and baseball, the other teams, including the crew, the track team...
...moral problem that the western world has to face at the present time is materialism and commercialism, and it is because of the over-valuation that men place on worldly goods that the progress of the world is so slow. The world of the Middle Ages was anything but ideal, being full of greed, cruelty, and lust, but the world of today is above all else, symbolical of materialism...
This materialism enters into every phase of our modern life, into our educational scheme, into relations between capital and labor, even into our religion. It is the practical ideal which is the choice of the vast majority of those who have the power to choose, and religion is tolerated in so far as it contributes to worldly wealth. The value of a civilization is to be tested by the culture that it prompts, but of true culture this age is almost guiltless, the mad race for wealth leaving no room for it. Until the soul of man gets wearied...
...article contributed to the Monthly for February, 1910, Mr. Robert Herrick spoke of a former ideal of literary art which "withstood various assaults from the practical, who wished the Monthly to 'get more in touch' -- abhorrent phrase -- with this or that,--athletics, the graduates, etc." "The magazine," he continued, "at any rate in my day, preserved a fine uselessness. I hope it does still!" The Monthly is certainly getting very much "in touch." The present number contains one brief essay, three 'stories, and five poems, at least one, "To a School fellow," by C. V. Wright, being of real excellence...
...hero's face "fresh, young, and ruddy from his gray ride over the boggy roads," etc. The tale is better than most of its brand, with interesting characters sharply defined in a charming and well realized environment; but the brand is poor. In the short article championing the university ideal for Harvard, Mr. Gregg likewise vitiates his contention by constraint and obscurity of diction...