Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a college would fail of its objective, if manned by a group of foreign professors, however brilliant. A faculty, equal in training to a similar group of Americans, but themselves natives of the country, belonging to and understanding thoroughly the people, must be the ideal. Such a faculty had come into existence before the war, and already there had been a first generation of three such pioneer teachers, trained at Yale and Amherst. The professors of the second generation were men, graduated first at Aintab, who had taken postgraduate work abroad in America, France, Germany or Great Britain...
...Ideal to Train Natives...
...second-hand dealers for as much as they can get; every fall at the opening of the term there are as many persons who must furnish rooms, and who for the most part go to these same dealers for the necessary furniture. For the dealers, this is an ideal situation; those leaving college are helpless and must accept what the dealers offer; the new arrivals are almost as helpless and must pay them whatever is asked. The trade between individual students is so small as to have no effect on the general situation; that carried on through the medium...
...need we changed the present system? The two clubs have at present friendly relations of competitive cooperation, and both are satisfied. The public is pleased with both shows as they are now, and according to A. H. Woods, to "give the public what it wants" is the highest ideal of the theatrical art. FERRY B. ALLEN...
Professor W. B. Munro'99 spoke last, on "Americanization." Professor Munro is chairman of the Americanization Committee of the Massachusetts American Legion. After showing that the present agitation for Americanization is due to a widespread conviction of the need of solidarity and of common ideal in this country, Professor Munro said that at present Americanization is carried on too much with the idea that everything American must be imposed on every foreigner. Hr urged an understanding of the alien with a view to learning what he has to teach us, and an Americanization with an ideal not to convert...