Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...international court, an international legislature, of which the present Hague Conference would serve as an upper house, and an international police system are the bodies necessary for the machinery of a world league. It could not give ideal justice, perhaps, but the sacrifices would be slight in view of its great benefit to all the nations of the world...
Weather is the ideal conversational bromide because there are no two ways about it. A condition of rain, or snow, frigidity, or humidity, leaves no room for argument. While beer at smokers may or may not be a curse, there can be no doubt about the status of a Cambridge winter. Secure behind unanimity of opinion, we feel safe, therefore, in advancing a few editorial remarks on the weather...
...given complete and thorough examination; in all our better institutions the etiquette of the game is scrupulously observed. In short, each of Dean Randall's desires for the better training of students is realized on the athletic field in so far as it there can be. The disciplinarian's ideal of slavery either to a brute as a boss (many of our athletic coaches cultivate brutishness), or to an ideal that they must win, is present in athletics...
...could more easily oust athletics from their present absurd position of primary importance. Admit the disciplinarian's point of view, and you admit that young men can only progress under very hard taskmasters or as slaves on the athletic field to a physical, in the classroom to a mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting to the minds of their students. And now we come to the weakness of disciplinarians--that it is not they at all but rather the idealists who are truly able to inculcate ideals, to tempt men, old or young, toward...
...simply one as to the morality of undergraduates, or whether it is or is not harmful to quaff the amberous lager. The question is this: are we willing that drinking shall be set up--as it surely will be by the outside world, if continued,--be a Harvard ideal. Are we willing to express such an influence? For temptation is largely a matter of emulation. Are we not drifting into Tuetonic "kultur," and into "basest hedonism"--as expounded by Harold E. Stearns of Boston American fame? LLOYD REILLY...