Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarterback, pointed out at the Wesleyan conference, athletics have been conducted like professional sporting clubs, and consequently supported as such. We believe this attitude is false. Since sound bodily development is essential to the perfection of nobler qualities of mind and soul, athletics for all must become the new ideal. When this ideal is actually established, there will then be nothing extraordinary in the notion of an athletic endowment...
...proposing this ideal, the CRIMSON is well aware that it will require time to bring it about. But if Harvard, Yale, and two other universities will take the lead in the matter and formulate some definite agreement looking to this end, there is no reason why this ideal, or one like it, should not ultimately be realized. And once definite steps have been taken to combat the present overemphasis of football, there can be no doubt that so progressive a lead would be imitated elsewhere...
...demonstration. It has already been demonstrated that one-celled animals can live indefinitely. But from single-celled animals there is a wide gap. Dr. Carrel's chickenheart-tissue is not a chicken. It is in effect a group of single cells living individually in an ideal environment without mutual interdependence. The real importance of the experiment is that it may furnish important information on the processes of tissue growth...
...originating, actually, in life itself and from there ascending to its highest expression on the stage. By theatricality he understands the power of transformation which he believes to be deeply rooted in human character. To appear what one is not, to transform life into a continuous performance is the ideal which should be set up by humanity. To put it in other words to escape the misery and suffering of existence you must escape reality and to escape reality you must build up a new reality in its place. Unlike the Buddhist who finds this new reality in Nirvana...
Four games are scheduled for foreign rinks, and only twice will the 1929 aggregation meet its foes on the Arena ice. St. Marks, Milton, Exeter, and Andover will all be invaded by the Crimson skaters. Dartmouth and Yale will play under the ideal conditions of the Arena...