Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course while at college. That such an opportunity should, be limited; either in the number of students that can be eared for, or in the scope and standard of the training, is highly detrimental, both to the University's reputation and welfare and to the safety of the American ideal of a four-year liberal college course...
...works aim at the portrayal of "atmosphere," rather than definite beauty. His later works show beyond question a greater consideration for the hearer's pleasure than do some of his earlier ones. There are a good many pianoforte pieces which in name and style seem to fulfill the Debussy ideal of landscape painting in music. A number of his compositions will be played next week by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall...
...ideal of education is vanishing under our eyes. "How to live" gives away for "how to make a living...
...forward, if we stop development along economic lines in government, the American ideal dies. For we must now have economic democracy for the twentieth century as we have had political democracy in the nineteenth century. If our ideal dies, the state which is organized to protect that ideal becames a mere shell." Mr. White ended his talk by an optimistic note, declaring that conservatism and reaction so evident now following the war are passing phases of the world's shell-shock and war-weariness, and that all the altruism and all the self-scarce which America put into...
...that, after all, is the chief significance of the scheme. If it be argued that this experiment has been tried under ideal conditions, it may be answered that prophetic experiments must always be tried under good conditions before they can be approved or condemned...