Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not help; changing their quality might. But chiefly it will be a matter of making prospective students understand the aims of the college. They must know that they are not wanted if they come merely to increase their earning capacity. They must be brought into sympathy with the ideal of an education which trains not for immediate power in one position, but for potential power in any. Discrimination, then, will be necessary; not of race or creed, not even of mentality; it will be discrimination on the basis of purpose...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth pursues a drawing-room hero ideal and finds his mission in the movies strictly comic...
...student should choose for his field of concentration that subject which is of all most dear to him. Whatever his calling in life, he should provide the means, now while there is time, for building him a little world of the ideal in which he can find relief from his daily task and a new inspiration for it. The literature of Greece and Rome contains such a world, remote from the present and forever akin to it. Nor should a concentration restricted to the Classics be regarded as a narrow programme. The ability to read authors like Thucydides, Aeschylus, Horace...
...Reverend G. E. Horr, president of the Newton Theological Institution, delivered the annual lngersoll Lecture last night in Emerson D. His subject was "The Christian Faith and Eternal Life." He gave the story of the growth of the Christian religion, showing how the ideal of immortality came to the minds of the ancients, and giving several theological arguments for the retention of that belief...
...athletes is of minor importance. But the clamoring for "recognition" indicates that too many institutions are tainted by that smallness of soul which regards outward display more than inward satisfaction. The colleges should be the first to realize that a "cum laude" without power is irony. Their ideal should be the spirit of true craftsmanship, the desire to do something, not for a specious reward, but for the sake of doing...