Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better aware of the virtues of the free elective system than Dr. Eliot, who instituted it at Harvard. The ideal of such a system, as he used it to illustrate his talk yesterday, is to make it possible for each student to find a subject which interests him, and which he can follow out with enthusiasm. No work, without that element of personal interest, can yield enjoyment, and without some return of satisfaction to the worker, any labor becomes stale and doubly tiring...
...when one day shows a program in which major parts are rivalled by non-athletic competitions, the ideal of diversified interests, each with its proper emphasis, seems decidedly nearer...
...March 4 Uncle Joe will be gone and Henry Cabot Lodge alone will remain to carry on the banner of the ideal. To the American people, however, the senior Senator from Massachusetts must perforce seem a little too genteel, too cold, too Back Bay to serve as an adequate trustee for the Old Guard tradition. They will long for the homely democracy of Mr. Cannon, so often expressed by those homely democratic symbols-Uncle Joe's black cigar and thumping quid...
...that in the second place candidates for enrollment would be considered primarily on the basis of scholarship, but that character and personality would also be taken into account, as usual, and in the third place that the present action is not related to the much discussed question of the "ideal size" for a college...
Already Egypt is influencing fashions and thought today as the classic ideal permeated western civilization in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Egyptian exhibits have become the center of interest for those who have suddenly begun to throng the museums. The latest styles of dress, as the unfailing barometer of interest, are modeled upon Egyptian patterns. Scandal and murder have been driven from the front pages of the newspapers by the spell of Egyptology. Its influence on literature of a more lasting sort depends on the papyri yet hidden in the tomb; more details about the captivity of Israel...