Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easier to enunciate an ideal than to propose a method of realizing it. But some suggestions seem almost self-evident. It is too early to have anything but general impressions of the success of the scheme permitting high rank men from qualified schools to enter Harvard on certificate; but those general impressions would indicate that the defects of the plan overbalanced its virtues. To turn to a different proposal, it is something of a question, in view of the apparent necessity for English F, why the College has not yet seen fit to adopt its committee's recommendation that...
...Force is the ideal of the West, whereas it is spurned in the East. Here it has been put upon a pedestal and made a God. The West has raised up a monster which has all but destroyed it. The best minds in the East have ever stood against this principle, trying like Ghandi to live as Christ did; while the best minds in the West endorse...
...speaker closed with a plea for the revision of accepted ideals. He compared the beauty of the Eastern conception of happiness as a condition of the mind and of the soul with the Western ideal of happiness in external things. "It is the universal view of the West that Western civilization in superior to Eastern. Why cannot people consider the possibility of being mistaken in their attitudes and views, and begin to look at things in a fresh with an open mind for beauty, inspiration...
...forget that a country's greatness lies not in its trade balances, its gold reserve, or its commercial prosperity, but above and beyond all these in its men, women, and children. Our trade unions, in striving for the welfare of the common people, are organized along the same ideal as the nation...
...drive for an Orthodox Jewish College in New York. Such sectionalism, such isolation from the commonwealth is to be commended neither among the Jews, nor among the Catholics in their Catholic colleges, nor in Episcopalian or any other denominational Institutions. For such institutions run, flatly counter to the ideal of American citizenship, of giving all the population America's heritage of traditions and America's purposes...