Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meiklejohn is deeply concerned with the problem of educating persons to realize the value of freedom of activity, and, that done, of showing them what they should do to obtain that freedom, and what the college can do to help the general plan. He sets up an ideal, which, unlike many that have been puppeted before the public in recent years, does not disintegrate under the steady gaze of any really curious observer...
American universities have all too frequently been likened to grist-mills, grinding out a mediocre product of intelligentia. Certainly the ideal university is not merely a large-scale vendor of knowledge, and it is perhaps with apprehension of this tendency in American education that President Butler of Columbia has taken the occasion of the inaugural exercises at Washington University to define the mission of the modern University. As important as the task of advancing learning, he believes, is that of offering a "reconciliation of the conflicting movements of nationalism and internationalism...
...prejudices of hidebound nationals. With the increasing frequency of-international debates and athletic meets, it is clear that all attempts to foster an international breadth of view do not emanate from college administrative offices, yet it is equally evident that there is no sharp realization of any such ideal by student bodies...
...statement presupposes that college provincialism and prejudice have been swept away by the abolition of Freshman caps. Yet President Butler's admission that "the University . . . is as yet only partially conscious of its place in civilization and of its mission" should spur it to a realization of its ideals. A constant contemplation of abstract virtues enabled medieval ascetics to work miracles, and that method should be effective today. The more frequently leader like President Butler set forth an ideal of liberal university education, the sooner will it be accepted and attained...
...folly to expect that the work of these deputation groups in visiting the schools will be confined to the ideal boundaries of merely encouraging the schoolboy to desire a college education for schlastic reasons. Any such delegation must discuss the college life as a whole, and just as men are moved to go to college for a multitude of reasons, so the deputation group-must, from the very nature of the case, discuss these reasons in relation to Harvard in urging men to come. And any discussion must of course include athletics, which perhaps more than anything else interest...