Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority of college students are not students at all; they are guests...
Silver Bay is situated 26 miles from the head of the lake, just above the narrows, and is one of the most beautiful spots in the lake. The location and equipment of the conference site are ideal and the fine athletic fields offer opportunities for tennis and baseball. Fishing, aquatic sports, and mountain climbing will also play an important part of the recreative life of the Conference...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...
...sentimental romanticism or the equally sentimental naturalism. The easy road of laudatory self-indulgence is no longer to be justified by an appeal to nature as the final law. Reason is again to assert its kingship in the domain of life; man is to turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make him socially and righteously efficient." To the aid of a "positive and ethical humanism" is to be brought a "positive and critical religion," for "humanism cannot get along without religion, because, as Burke pointed...
...that a modern University helps little in forming this valuable friendship. Upper Widener is hardly the place for an old pipe and a good book; even the Farnsworth Room in spite of its delightful and charming atmosphere falls short of the ideal. These are places for industrious study or profitable reading but not for "just reading...