Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is not a plea for wearisome grinding at set tasks. There can be too much studying of courses but not too much work upon subjects. One may welcome Mr. Ware's ideal of undergraduate activity--that the maturer graduates should be treated with the respect they really deserve, and by pointing attention to things worth doing to arouse in them the intelligent interest which they are ready to manifest. This might, as the writer suggests, be afforded in the later years of undergraduate life by leading them to concentrate upon practical questions of real difficulty...
...deep loss not only to those who had the opportunity to be his friends but also to all Harvard men. In him a real leader of men is lost and one who when he lived was an unsurpassed example of that manhood which most nearly approaches the Harvard ideal...
...square deal. And when the President and the Deans have been consulted as to the composition and authority of the new body, and when the necessity of reviving the Council while the machineries of class elections are convenient is self-evident, it hardly behooves a critic to discuss ideal methods of ratification and nomination...
...those enjoyed by the old. The striking difference between the two bodies is in organization. The fundamental weakness of the old plan with its large and, consequently, unwieldy membership is eradicated in the new. A large advisory body with a small and, therefore, effective executive committee is the ideal arrangement...
...merit, much that bears the marks of genius, has appeared in this mass. But the good is lost, irretrievably buried in the accumulation of the bad or merely indifferent. But there is in the three magazines enough good material to fill one magazine that would fulfill the second ideal of which we spoke,--the ideal which would best perpetuate the literary traditions of this place...