Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attitude of the great American universities upon any social question with ways go far toward determining in the nation. Harvard has always stood for the highest ideals of manhood in contemporary society could Whatever may have been true in the today this highest ideal includes the temperance. Any official sanction use of alcohol is no longer in with the spirit and social duty of the university...
...Scientific School than to start in and raise an additional endowment and set up a "third college" with less study of mathematics and the classic languages. On the other hand, it is plain that he looks with some favor, at least, on a closer approximation to the English university ideal, with the university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning...
...articles are: "Roads toward Peace," by President-emeritus Charles W. Eliot; "International Understanding," by Hugo Muensterberg; "The East and the West in the Twentieth Century," by Professor M. Anesaki; "The Task of the Interpreter," by Professor Josiah Royce; and "University Ideals in England, Germany, and the United States," by Professor Francis G. Peabody. George W. Nasmyth, of the Harvard International Polity Club, in his talk "Above all Humanity are the Nations," reverses the ideal of the Club, and then pleads that the Cosmopolitan watchword is the expression of the fundamental social truth, "Above all Nations is Humanity." Louis P. Lochner...
...characterizing the Illustrated as a periodical whose ideal has been "popularity first," I do not believe I shall be incurring the enmity of its editors. Neither a special interest nor the publication of the best efforts of the board--or of the candidates!--have been the goal. Whether or not consciously formulated, there is little doubt that the guiding principle of the Illustrated has been to attract and please readers. The field has been a wide and an open one. That the Illustrated is ever better filling this field the present issue bears witness. From whatever angle one views...
...several other engineering schools in the country have been offered an opportunity to compete for $1000 in prizes for essays on highway construction. The subjects suggested cover a wide range, including: Factors which should govern the choice of types of pavements and roads and the materials used therein; an ideal paving program for a city of 25,000 people; economics of highway construction, and other related topics. The prizes are offered by the Barber Asphalt Paving Company to promote investigation of highway problems by engineering students and to encourage them to enter a field of work where there is great...