Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal and idealistic remedy, of course, is a reform among the managers themselves which would result in the production of only decent plays. But apparently such a reform is out of the question, if only for the reason that the indecent plays make money on the free advertising gained from the controversies about them. Such, at least, has been the history of one play still holding the boards in New York...
...Senate turned him down. Taft wished to gain peace by judicial settlement and was blocked. Mr. Wilson created the Covenant of the League of Nations and he was turned down hard, and now Mr. Harding has sought world order through the Limitation of Armaments. Each had peace as his ideal...
...programs for moral and religious education even in the universities of countries quite unlike America. But more important than the acceptance, of Brooks House as a practical working model of program and organization, more important by far, is the acceptance of the spirit of Brooks House as the ideal toward which the social and religious interests of the students of these countries should be directed: It is thus that the idealism of mutual service, of practical morality, and of brotherhood is being carried to universities all over the world by men who have been tough these principles at Brooks House...
...unfortunately true that the American colleges are, from an ideal point of view, altogether too paternalistic. The standardized requirements for admission, as well as for graduation tend to put the stamp of uniformity upon the college course as whole. While for the undergraduate, routine work, routine attendance, and routine examinations heighten this general tendency. All these factors have had a restraining effect upon independent intellectual endeavor. The stimulus to such effort is deadened by the continual pressure of every-day requirements. Then, too, many professors have slipped into the habit of assuming only a routine interest on the part...
...less organized than those in this country. But the average individual activity probably is greater in that English school. Each afternoon everyone does something in the line of outdoor sports, which is more than can be said for the typical American student. The English seem to have approached the ideal of just enough work and just enough play. There is a happy medium, a moderation between study and athletics. Winning the game is not the paramount idea, but rather playing a good game. W. B. Butler in the Michigan Daily