Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposes to drive upper class men under the Freshman yoke of compulsion. But the old ideal of "mens sana in corpore sano" is one which a certain proportion of students will always overlook. Time is limited; the man for whom exercise is now particular pleasure does not always find it easy break into the afternoon for a game of tennis or squash or a row on the river; often, too, it is difficult to find partners or facilities. The temptation of the easiest way is to let exercise slip, or to put up with the old-man's expedient...
...once in a while there is a slip-up,--a case (now in the hospital) has come to our attention this week,--and the undergraduate searcher after truth is the sufferer. Possibly the ideal solution is a war memorial in the form of a foot-bridge or tunnel to the Yard. Until this is realized, it seems reasonable that the Cambridge traffic system should be brought comparatively up to date. Without interfering with traffic or much expeuse to those who watch over the city's interests, it would be possible to place four safety "islands" or zones along Masschusetts avenue...
...ideal of a college that gives training for character as well as for mind, the tutoring school, so-called, has no place. A college can not do its best work if it counts among its students any considerable proportion of mental cripples, whether they be cripples by birth or by acquisition. Unfortunately there are both kinds here--and, more unfortunately still, the tutoring schools are doing their best forcibly to thrust this state of mental incapacity upon the rest. And it is due to this fact that the present situation exists: where the college wants tutors--must have them--, wants...
...they must be put out of the college buildings; second, students must be enlightened as to the frequent unreliability of their notes; third, and traditionally greatest, the college must inspire the students with sincere interest in their work. Then, and then only, will the college be even approximating its ideal. These are the sole ways in which to attack the problem; for the student himself who is so weak as to rely on "notes" for a passing mark cannot be convinced of the evil of his ways by argument, utilitarian or otherwise. The hypodermic must...
...monument or a chapel. Harkness at Yale, the Walker Memorial at Technology, and our own library, are all examples of highly utilitarian buildings which never lost sight of the memorial purpose for which they were erected. As long as the CRIMSON believes that undergraduates, at least, favor the practical ideal rather than the abstract, it will earnestly continue to support the proposal for a memorial dormitory. Meanwhile, expressions of opinion from others will not be unprofitable...