Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only was it most thoroughly un-Greek, but at the same time there arose a great interest and almost worship of Greece. It was a fair land of flowers and warm sunshine, of snowy temples and exquisite statues, of liberty and freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land in which he lived...
...will become the function of the National Student Federation, to explore these fields and many others, and to make them fruitful. You cannot create an ideal college just by taking thought, and by giving rein to your imagination. We live in America, in the Twentieth century...
...cold sublimity of the ideal tragery there is now added something to excite a more universal if less elevated appeal. Characters took on more reality and the passions and sorrows of every day life were portrayed with more vividness and directness. Practically speaking. Euripides became the founder of the romantic drama and it is interesting in view of this to note that A. W. Schlegel, the very fountain head of the great German romantic movement would scarcely admit that his dramas were tolerable...
...story of Monet's rise--to fame is one of constant striving for an ideal in the lace of all handicaps. As a soldier in Africa for the first part of his life, and then for many years when he struggled to sell his paintings as best he could he was face to face with that great problem of many an artist, the problem of the empty pocket...
...that brings members of all departments of the University together. It is the best of the so-called intramural sports. Played in the open air and requiring fast, clever action, without the incessant running of soccer and lacrosse, or the personal contact of football, the new game offers an ideal exercise for the fall. The unusual amount of interest displayed by undergraduates this year insures a firm backing for the sport in the future...