Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. With characteristic foresight even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily." (This is one of the many "wise cracks" after the manner of Will Rogers that Mr. Washburn thought good enough to center in italics in the middle of his pages. Will Rogers still sleeps soundly...
...fishermen's races in the past has again made itself evident in the Columbia-Bluenose battle. Old salts on both sides seem to be salted down with suspicion. This perhaps, is justified, for neither appears above suspicion. In fact the whole competition seems to have degenerated from the ideal of true sport to the baser ideal of winning by any means, fair or fairly foul...
...believe that communism is the ideal system of society?" was the next question...
...ideal day,--sun and a blue sky,--for spectators and players at the University-Dartmouth football encounter this afternoon in the Stadium, was the official prediction of the Blue Hills Observatory at a late hour last night. The Observatory, which is a part of the University, and the most accurate forecaster of weather in the vicinity of Boston, went so far as to say that yesterday's cumulous clouds, which cut off the sun's rays, and which are caused by the cooling of the upper strata of air, would probably be absent today. As for a storm,--nearly...
...always tempting to take the ideal point of view and argue that after all football is a sport and not a business, that it would be better if the undergraduates who were most concerned directed all athletic work, that in football in particular the emphasis has been disproportionate and the individual made a mere cog in a machine. But such arguments, however tempting, are idle unless they accord with facts. And the trend during the past two decades at least has been in the opposite direction. There are signs that even crew, which, in the past, has relied more than...