Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean Briggs was the first man who ever became a dean without losing his popularity. He carried with him into the office the sympathy and friendly understanding which have made him the best of guides; he established for the University, and as an example for all American colleges the ideal that a dean is not a mere disciplinary officer but a counsellor and friend. The personal element which he introduced has been continued by those who have succeeded him as Dean of Harvard College, and the creation of assistant deans for each class extended it even farther...
...delicate task of supplementing college training, not undermining it. Whatever we may think of the system that he developed, it was always clear to those who knew him best that he worked from the highest motives and sought to give help of a kind that reflected an unusual ideal in teaching. Friendly and generous in all his relations his passing will mark a real loss in college life." GEORGE HOWARD PARKER '87. Professor of Zoology...
...have heard a good deal in the publishing business about the necessity of writing down to the public taste and I have never found that necessity to exist.'" Lord Asquith: " I wrote an article for a charity of Paisley, my constituency, in which I declared: ' Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life...
...orchestra as are the final rows in a concert hall, much of the nuance of the orchestra is lost. The pianissimi are apt to be inaudible. For this reason the best programs for outdoor performance are vigorous ones, with heavy masses of tone and brazen climaxes. Tschaikowsky is ideal...
Even the graybeards of "Life" cannot really believe us so young and ingenuous as not to see the abstract beauty of an abstract memorial chapel. But that has nothing to do with the case. The purpose of a War Memorial, as the CRIMSON understands it, is to commemorate an ideal for which certain noble sacrifices have been made. The ideal was not merely spiritual; it was the greater one of service to humanity. A new chapel at Harvard would hardly typify that service:--it is not physically needed, and at best it would serve only those whose religious wants were...