Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
...Colonial Theatre, for a second season of classic opera in English. Under the auspices of the Massachusetts Association for the Promotion of the American Opera Company, of which Edward Burlingame Hill '94 of Harvard University is honorary chairman, this company is working toward a many-sided ideal, the popularization of English opera...
...Another ideal of the company is to popularize opera by giving it to the public at regular theatre prices. They contend that more people would attend opera if prices were not so exorbitant for the average purse...
...curricula forever remain aloof to scurrilous attacks of "Crime" editors. Possibly you would rejoice if you could eliminate everything connected with cerebral activity from college life. Serlously, your intellectual status is gravely questioned after the inane castigation in Thursday's edition on a revered feature of the Harvard educational ideal...
...great historic significance of Balfour's visit was the fact-now first indisputably established by the evidence of the House papers-that Wilson was made fully aware of the secret treaties upon which, rather than upon Wilson's ideal, the ultimate Peace Treaty was virtually based. Wilson's 1917 decision, fortified if not formulated by Colonel House, was that any discussion of the treaties would lead to a disagreement among the allies, and hence play into the hand of the enemy. Anyway, Wilson was sure that U. S. economic power was such that "when...