Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal way to distribute seats for a college football game would be by invitation." Major F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the Athletic Association told a CRIMSON reporter. "In this way any trace of commercialism that might taint this sport and the disagreeable element of the crowds would be done away with...
...ideal however, is unattainable for the Athletic Association must have money to carry on its work, and so admission to games must be charged." The reporter suggested making the association independent by an endowment. "Nearly $10,000,000 would be needed for such a fund," said Major Moore. "With the numerous other demands for endowment, especially for college professors, the possibility of ever getting one is out of the question...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...
...existing secondary schools. The prevailing school system varies widely in efficiency in different sections of the country; in large cities, such as Boston, New York, and Chicago, it usually fulfills its purpose; but in the scattered rural communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown to San Francisco, Dean Churchill's educational millenium would be considerably nearer...
Professor Emerton says, "However much one might differ from this or that detail of his opinion, one always felt the purity and loftiness of his ideal, the firmness of his standards, the depth and sincerity of his sympathy...