Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many readers the most curiously interesting chapter will be the first, in which we read the history of Holden Chapel. Here again a persistent Harvard trait is illustrated, the practical adaptation of material means to immediate ideal ends. Built on a generous scale for religious purposes within one generation, and during a century and a half has been either entirely abandoned or employed as "senate-chamber, courthouse, barracks, carpenter shop, engine-house, dissecting theatre, recitation building, museum, lecture-hall, clubhouse, laboratory, general auditorium--everything but a chapel." In our architectural kaleidoscope this much abused solitary gift of an English donor...
There exists a "lime starvation" treatment, which consists of getting organic lime into the blood. Mr. McCann asserts that the customary sanatorium treatment arrests only 22% of tuberculosis cases, taken at early stages, and treated under ideal conditions, whereas, for 12 years, the "lime starvation" cure has arrested an average of 68%, taken at serious stages, and treated while patients continued to do their regular work. Mr. McCann asserts that the suppression of this cure reveals "the abysmal inertia of the medical profession with respect to a disease so clumsily and inefficiently attacked...
...High, approving the action of the student pacifists at Indianapolis, said that he himself would refuse to go to war. If enough people could be induced to bind themselves together for the same ideal, he said, war would be made absurdly impossible...
...especial care must be exercised in the estimate of the work which the individual student is capable of doing without waste of time, and in the second place, teachers with sufficient imagination and personality are hard to find. But the search for the latter is worth while, and under ideal conditions it should be possible to furnish the students what they require. The ideal conditions include money for space and equipment. The crowded state of most American high schools would be an unfortunate obstacle to the perfecting of the scheme in this country. But the plan, where it does...
...well-educated man is the man who knows how to use his own language well." The College through English F seems therefore to be furthering President Eliot's ideal. F. W. GKRHART...