Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meddling of our congressmen in Great Britain's affairs only strains the good relations of the two countries. And it is not a commendable love of the ideal of liberty which prompts this action, but a contemptible fear of the Irish vote in America. If these congressmen had enough courage to hold their country's interests above their own, they would keep their mouths shut on this matter...
...gained at any great collegiate function that brings the parents and friends of college boys into the open together and enables them to display simultaneously their automotive opulence." The "Quadwrangler" in the Transcript of April 30 comments on this proposal favorably, but regards the whole project as "altogether too ideal...
...moment disregard the source of this suggestion, since any regard for it would elicit the inevitable cynicism: "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" Let us rather consider the applicability of the suggestion to our own, University. Is it certain that the project is too ideal? Is it certain that it would be difficult to determine the exact measure of the contribution? Surely the unit cost of a Bachelor's degree has been calculated by some one and is known to some one. It is not unreasonable to ask all who receive Bachelor's degrees to pay for what they...
...summary, Hoover's plan or ideal is the practicability of the lowering of taxes through the reduction of waste, the remainder to be borne by the classes most able to pay, but no class is to be so heavily burdened that its initiative or ambition is killed. R. J. BARNS...
...ideal we advocate a happy mean--say a quarter limit and twenty percent. Ideals were the possession of another less mysterious generation. Our free and Puritanical ancestors with their toddy...