Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carries with it one serious danger, however, if applied without discrimination. It may attempt to combine the independence of the English ideal with the thoroughness of the German ideal; that is, American universities which adopt the tutorial system must not try to use the English tutors with the idea of securing the effectiveness of the German seminar The result of this would be to raise the general level of the educational standard but to put the exceptional man at a disadvantage...
...seems, however, that these at tempts at selection are headed towards the proper ideal, a standard of quality. On the other hand, suggestions such as appear in the New York Times editorial reprinted in this column, aim toward the reverse ideal of quantity. Part-time instruction, an excellent device in over-crowded high-schools, appears of doubtful service in college work...
...expressed in dialog, so little in incident. Still, the dialog is crisp, frequently eloquent; the play intelligent. Alice Brady gives a splendid interpretation of the cynical, disillusioned wife. To John Halliday is due even greater credit for his performance as the perfectly uninterested husband, devoted to his emotional ideal of love...
...quality. The cultured classes, which formed the backbone of the pre-War musical public, have but little money at present for concerts or opera. The rather nondescript audiences of today seem to lack the discrimination which, combined with warm enthusiasm for really fine things, formerly lent such an ideal atmosphere to musical performances abroad. "It is sad-immeasurably...
...stuck to illustrating, doing as high as 250 plates in a single year. Off and on he visited Europe, but in 1871 and 1873 he made the trips that made his name, to the bright-hued rock-gorge country of the Far West with government geologists. It was an ideal locale for a devoted student of Turner and of nature's iridescent color effects. Congress paid him $10,000 apiece for his companion canvases, "Chasm of the Colorado" and "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," which were hung in the Capitol...