Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic City was that in which he pointed out the emphasis placed on character development in American education, as compared with that which the training of intelligence receives abroad. The high pay of athletic coaches, upon which Professor Morize commented unfavorably, is probably another manifestation of the same ideal through participation in sport...
...opinion of Dr. James H. Breasted, who has just returned from a four months stay in Egypt, that "the race that launched a thousand ships" belonged not to a poetic ideal but to a very real person, may lie the seeds of a possible renascence of interest in the study of Greek. Dr. Breasted believes from examinations which he has been conducting among the entombed records of Tut-ankh-amen that Helen of Troy actually lived, and that the much doubted Trojan war was considerably more than a mere fight of fancy on the part of Homer...
...able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary benefit was expected to accrue to those yet unborn, five years is no test at all. It is up to us to lay aside our appetites and personal desires to an increasing extent as we progress toward the ideal of society, else we shall retrogress or at best stand still...
...social renegade. At that time he was as easily recognized by his objections to the status quo as by his proposed methods of reaching Utopia. Now it is somewhat difficult to find even a "blood-sucking capitalist" to agree that all's right in the world. The socialist's ideal has expanded somewhat, it is true and for the original Fabians and Marxianists have sprung a varying breed, of social agitators, but doubtless the chief reason for the lack of a clear cut issue is the general acceptance of the belief that the present social structure can be vastly improved...
...fact that the human impulse to swallow these bitter pills at once in creases the difficulty of the first year to the breaking point is not, nevertheless, a sound argument for condemning the whole concentration and distribution scheme. In theory, the ideal of a balanced general knowledge of the most important subjects with a deeper, more specialized knowledge of one is extremely good. And if, for reasons which might be obviated more easily than a substitute ideal discovered, the practical application is at fault, the ideal itself need not be discarded. Rather should efforts be turned toward preventing the first...