Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kenneth C. MacArthur '04, pastor of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, will speak at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 9.30. Dr. MacArthur has spent 11 months abroad with the 76th Infantry, and has had many interesting experiences "over there." His talk will be entitled "A Big Enough Ideal." All members of the University are invited to attend...
...Professor Perry in his oration on "Poetry and Progress," traced the relation of several fundamental ideas developed in the course of individual and social progress to the are of poetry. He showed first how the conception of right easiness has been fostered by the poets. Another ideal, scarcely less noble, he found to be the ideal of justice...
...speaker went on to test the attitude of poets towards the ideal of liberty, and the desire for peace. "The war poetry of the last five years have wrought one inestimable service: it has told the pities truth, not only about the battlefield, but about the wrath and hate and greed that are coiled around the foundations of Europe. It says little of the pomp and circumstances of glorious war; it goes straight to the human facts underlying war; it shows that worldwide peace is conditioned upon the concrete and fundamental issues of justice, liberty, and fellowship...
...good time in the House of the parent association. It is an opportunity for those who have been devoting their interest in a special field to meet on a common ground many other undergraduates and alumni who are actively working along different lines but with the same ideal of service...
...most perfect undergraduate work; possibly they are more anxious to publish material reflecting the type of writing most undergraduates like to do and expressing the thoughts they like to think, and, very possibly, they believe this is the nearest possible approach to what seems to be the unattainable ideal of a truly representative Harvard literary magazine...