Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part in the lives of a vast majority of students (which is true enough), nor is likely to become any more important in the future. It thinks a neglected chapel would be an ignominious tribute. If thinks a building which will be "a constant, active reminder of the ideal which it represents is the only memorial worth considering," and it speaks up for a memorial gymnasium...
Charles E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, stated the ideal program as: 1) easy Constitutional amendments, 2) abolition of Supreme Court and courts' power of veto, 3) abolition of the Senate, the Presidential veto, the present Congressional committee system, and of the system of 48 state laws, which served as a " fig-leaf for centralized dictatorship of employers...
...reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel sounds could not be made to sound truly. For a long time organ manufacturers have tried to fashion a genuine " vox humana," a mechanical singing voice. It is said that the new device will bring the ideal of speaking dolls...
McGraw is naïvely convinced that college training is ideal for the professional ball player. In fact, this idea is almost the central theme of his book. He dwells on it so fondly that the uninitiated might suspect the colleges existed solely for the purpose of producing intelligent ball players. Unconsciously Mr. McGraw has thus produced a piercing satire, far more brilliant than Mr. Edison's, against our reverent institutions of the so-called higher learning...
Speaking last night before the Harvard Committee of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Associations, Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06 declared that "a proposition for a League of Nations, which has ceased to be only an ideal and has become a reality, is before this country, and is upheld by all citizens who believe in the foundation of universal peace through political agencies...