Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stir, nor be heralded with superlatives, nor even, in all probability, be granted the attention it deserves. For it is pleasant, gentle, free from the slightest taint of flashiness; and has been written, as all books must be if they are to live, as the embodiment of a certain ideal...
...state of flux. Dissatisfaction, discussion, innovation are rife, and while many mistakes may be made, there is certain to be progress. In fact such progress is already in evidence in the extension of freedom of cuts at the University and at Princeton, a move toward the ideal of education by desire rather than by compulsion. But Columbia has taken the greatest stride of all in its plan, just announced, of abolishing mid-year and final examinations in certain trial courses and perhaps in the near future, all compulsory attendance at classes...
...short Columbia is leaping to the final ideal of college education without any of the preliminary steps, and therefore it may "o'erleap itself and fall on the other". The experiment is one of absorbing interest and one may well hope for its success. But in case of failure, one must remember that the ideal has scarcely been tried under fair conditions and should therefore not, as an ideal, be condemned...
...proud to remember that I had the honor of being the Commander-in-Chief of the most ideal army that was ever thrown together- pardon my emotion-though the real fighting Commander-in-Chief was my honored friend, Pershing...
...other college; and it is not among them that one would look for an athlete to bring to Harvard. Talking to these boys about college is not intended so much to influence them to plan definitely to go to college, as it is to place before them an ideal which will enlarge their visions and arouse their ambitions...