Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is like strong medicine, helpful and effective; but dangerous if swallowed blindly without careful reading of the instructions. The ideal college man of these analyses is a man of clay, moulded by heredity and environment. Of necessity he is a type, not an individual, and he has no actions or reactions of his own towards anything. The conclusions arrived at by this line of reasoning are intentionally general. When applied personally they open pleasing vistas for those inclined to the "God fights on the side of the heaviest artillery" school of philosophy. It is dangerously easy for the small...
...probably look askance at Mr. Gavit's article published today. If they do, they must remember that he is not talking about the English A which they took, but about the course as it ought to be, and as it is now the aim to make it. And the ideal which Mr. Gavit expresses, if it can ever be fully realized, is an ideal that will make English A a "foundation course" of inestimable value...
...commando is discovered, an airplane can drop bombs on it without endangering the life of anyone except the strikers. Of course such a method could not be used in a strike in a city, but for a disturbance such as this in South Africa it seems to be ideal, and if it succeeds in breaking the strike it will have won its spurs with distinction...
...plan is indeed ideal. But it is not quite complete. As all strikers are iniquitous and all strikers should be exterminated, is it not foolhardy to kill off merely the workers? It is the mothers who breed future strikers. They too must be annihilated. If respectable people are ever to enjoy peace, the entire proletariat must be wiped out. By the expenditure of a few extra pounds of explosives, the air pilots can easily destroy the undesirable slum sections of our cities...
...commando is discovered, an airplane can drop bombs on it without endangering the life of anyone except the strikers. Of course, such a method could not be used in a strike in a city, but for a disturbance such as this in South Africa it seems to be ideal, and if it succeeds in breaking the strike it will have won its spurs with distinction