Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...business man should not have as his ideal the accumulation of excessive wealth, but should strive for moderate wealth, allowing leisure time for the proper development of the moral and intellectual side. To acquire great wealth is not any longer a sign of great personal achievement, and does not carry with it any great personal distinction...
...addition to this ideal of moderate rather than excessive wealth, the busi- ness man should entertain a right standard of living. The simple life is undoubtedly the ideal life, but the simple life does not mean a life without comfort and refinement. It does mean a life that is not lowered by undue extravagance and the reckless expenditure of large sums of money...
...With ideal weather conditions the spring handicap track games on Saturday afternoon brought out a number of excellent performances. Two new Harvard records were established and close competition was the rule in all the events. P. R. Withington '12, running from scratch, broke the University two-mile record, made by H. Jaques, Jr., '11, in the dual meet with Yale at New Haven in 1909, by 12 1-5 seconds, his time for the distance being 9 minutes, 34 3-5 seconds. T. Cable '13, the other record breaker, threw the 16-pound hammer 150 feet, 7 8-10 inches...
...word of appreciation to the athletes who will spend at least a part of the coming vacation in active training is surely deserved. By such self-imposed discipline is shown the real spirit of college athletics, the striving after an ideal of perfection which will make the team and the individual an honor to Harvard. A word also to the athletes whose training is not so rigorous as to require their presence in Cambridge may not be amiss. Although we do not feel that they should be unnecessarily restricted in the enjoyment of a well-earned vacation, we do believe...
...freed from the truth that morality has any relation to art. A pure-souled idealist like Shelley could depart from traditional codes of morals and make for himself a new code that was yet noble. But Shelley escaped, in his poetry, from the vulgar details of life into an ideal world inhabited by ideal beings whose childlike vision was as pure as his. Even he could not have purified such a situation as Mr. Carb conceives--but he never would have conceived...