Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relay of plans for good is fired by the correspondent whose letter suggests the foundation of a Peace Museum. The institute so built might surely offer its gallery of portraits and memorials as a Mecca to a peaceful world; and there would stand a library likewise devoted to this ideal; and, if the founders were really generous, the edifice housing these mementoes would be quite as inspiring as its contents. There is the raw material for a highly pleasing concretion of an ideal...
...then, that most of the two classes of undergraduates who would derive greatest benefit from the discussion of undergraduate problems is excluded. Freshmen and Sophomores, with their college careers still ahead, are the ones who need guidance more than upperclassmen. Fraternities in their commendable effort toward achieving a Utopian ideal seem to be hampered by their own exclusiveness...
Cried a Lieutenant, stepping forward: "The Ideal! wearing the Spanish uniform we can only serve the Ideal! let us march?on to Madrid...
...best Greek sculptors created ideal, wholly impersonal types of physical perfection. When this sculpture filtered into Rome, puissant Roman sculptors were dissatisfied with merely copying the Greeks. Realists, they chiselled the seamed, tense, virile faces of the men who built Rome, who strove for justice and power rather than beauty. In modern sculpture both these tendencies are visible. Modern sculptors of character, Roman in tradition, sometimes meet a subject with Roman attributes...
Today there are no favorites, save that he never plays in public any music which he does not feel sure he understands. Feeling it all and having it sure within him has been his great ideal. He practices little be cause once after a long tramp through the Alps he found he played just as well with out having touched a piano for six weeks. Now he memorizes much of his music away from the piano, riding on trains, climbing mountains, studying birds, flowers, butter flies. He does not smoke, play cards nor eat butter. He is 33, quite bald...