Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mercantile Marine stockholders last week decided to exchange vain mementoes of a frustrated plan, for new shares that seemed to promise them actual dividends. The late J. P. Morgan organized I. M. M. 25 years ago, close to the time when he organized the U. S. Steel Corp. His ideal was to create great corporations that would lead their fields. In steel he succeeded: in shipping he failed. The overdue, unpaid dividends on I. M. M. preferred stock now amount to tidy millions. The common stock, under such circumstances, has of course earned nothing...
...restrain his inclination to hurry Mr. Tomorrow on such a matter as defining and settling U. S. oil land titles in Mexico? Will the Mexicans be offended if he interrupts their siestas with statistics? Or are modern Mexicans susceptible to amiable prompting? Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border...
...already received, he must enlarge his influence; with this in mind he began to publish in a religious weekly, the Inde-pendent,* containing sermons or other miscellaneous notions. Scandal. On the staff of the Independent was a young man, one Theodore Tilton, whose wife was '"an ideal mother; a woman of wide reading and fine literary taste . . . affectionate disposition...
...that the tutorial system does not relate closely to the rest of the curriculum. It is rather a fifth wheel. The chief disadvantage is that it lacks checking up. I feel, however, that my short experience as tutor does not wholly entitle me to such a dogmatic opinion. The ideal system would be to leave all responsibility to the tutor. There would be no examinations, and lectures would be optional. The tutor would have the final decision as to whether the student has passed...
...interest and finds he just has to look at the pictures in the salon. Since there are not too many pictures, each must be studied. Studied they are appreciated, just as are the pictures hung in a gentleman's private gallery. The artist exhibiting under these conditions finds them ideal for a sale?he has a proper display, his prospect the proper attitude, and usually, aboard fine steamers, the proper purse...