Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly praiseworthy; the sponsors of the scheme, no doubt, looking abroad upon a naughty world and finding it bad, have decided to establish for themselves a little oasis of purity in the surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency...
Naturally enough, a love story ensues in which this curious idealist of the underworld plays opposite the shopgirl, who dimly feels something beyond the flesh, but who can understand clearly only when the flesh is speaking. They quarrel because she cannot comprehend his idealism. They separate. They rejoin again, and for a while it seems as if her way of living triumphs. But in the end it is Carley's ideal that wins. And when he is sent to an insane asylum as a criminal paranoic it is indicated that she understands his attitude. At any rate, she agrees...
...Swope, like all successful business men, is of the opinion that the best results come from methods of fair-dealing, and there was a note of this spirit in his final words. "If you go forth with the ideal that Harvard holds aloft to you in its motto of 'Veritas', it seems to me that you will carry a message to the community, that is worth while carrying and which, in the doing, will give you a great deal of satisfaction...
...certain advantages. The much-advertised "intelligence tests," now in use at Columbia and other universities would give each candidate a rating as to native capacity or "mental efficiency." The School record would indicate past performance. The New Plan examinations would test his specific knowledge of four basic subjects. Quite ideal...
...touring the country in the interests of the Manchester guardian. When questioned by a CRIMSON reporters over the possibility of Lloyd George being returned to power, Mr. Wicks said that at present Mr. Lloyd George is remaining quiet, but if ever occasion demands a figure to champion an ideal, Lloyd George is the man, for there is no man in England who appears to better advantage "riding a white charger and championing a cause...