Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make an effort to be perfect in speech as well as perfect in appearance? And how can Williams, with its distinction of being the only college in New England which will graduate a man without requiring a single hour of English study, expect its students to aim at the ideal of pure speech? College and student are both at fault, and if the ability to speak reputably is a vital part of the well-educated man, then correct speech for its own sake must be emphasized in precept by the college, and in practice by the undergraduates. --Williams Record
...young men, who came from country and city, with all the pride of their race, who, veterans from the first, inspired a new sprit into the army, and gave their lives for an ideal. I saw in your library photographs of your comrades who fell in the war. Our Italian universities have similar exhibitions. These young men who gave their youth for a faith, are the foundation of the future civilization, and a greater...
...also identical with it. Where American opinion goes astray is in its failure to perceive that, since the Conference cannot stop half way, we again must face the problem of Article X. Whether directly through the League of Nations, or indirectly through limitation of armaments, the road to our ideal of universal peace is at present blocked by Article X. The sooner we Americans realize the futility of our sentimental revolt against "binding the free American people" to fight other nations' wars, the sooner the achievement of our own ideal will be placed on a rational basis...
...believe that the purpose of such an institution as the Dean's List should be to realize in some measure the ideal of greatest possible freedom for upper classmen in organizing their work. We also believe that the Office had this same principle in mind when drawing up the regulations. If this is indeed the real purpose of the Dean's List, then the requirement regarding Degrees with Distinction is one which defeats this...
...journalism. The former assumes responsibility for all that appears on its pages, while the latter takes it for granted that its readers will not take signed articles at their face value, but will discount the personal element. This policy is quite in accord with democratic standards, and approaches the ideal condition; but unfortunately it presupposes either an intelligent public, or a public which reads editorials, both of which are rare commodities. Unless these articles are plainly labeled "Private" and fenced in a special column with special type, the general reader will appropriate their opinions for his own, without realizing their...