Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans and ideal projects can, however, only come about when the world faces the weakness of its code of international law, and remedies it. Nations that have the best political organization, have the most law; where there is the most law, there is the most justice, and where there is the most justice, there is the most peace. The world is facing somewhat of the same problem as did the 13 original American states, and improved communications and transportation have, by annihilating time and space, made our present opportunity greater than that of 1776. Men must face the alternative...
...result--an unusually serious religious atmosphere--has been testified to by Bishop Williams of Michigan in his article in a recent Alumni Bulletin and by other of the University preachers. A reversion to a general compulsory system would be a sad chapter in the history of the University's ideal; the problem in hand is to inculcate more men with the desire...
...there is any one thing we may derive from President Lowell's annual report, printed in full in a supplement this morning, it is a conception of Harvard, the University. If there is another, it is a comprehension of the ideal of service which the University is pursuing. And if a third, turning particularly to the college, a clear presentation of the aims of the new Freshman dormitories and a discussion of the three and the three and a half year course...
...their nature he does not explain to the child. The fraternalistic method of instruction where the reasons for education are imparted to the educated should replace the paternalistic method as soon as the child can realize the value of instruction. It is only by this latter method that the ideal of teaching can be reached, when teacher and pupil work together for a common goal
Harvard and Technology have long been ambushed with the same ideas of thoroughness and breadth. The idea will soon have its realization and the future graduate will be like the ideal engineer, endowed with a "large, general cultivation," a perfect type of a "well-rounded...