Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford tutorial system has been discussed as an ideal for so long that it is difficult to dispel the notion that it is ideal. As Americans have learned more and more of its operations, however, they have found out that a bodily transference of the English institution to Harvard and other American universities is not possible. There are aspects of English University life which would never be tolerated here, for example the rigid rules and regulations governing the daily life of the student. Then, too, the educational system of Oxford and Cambridge is based upon an excellent preparatory school training...
...Ideal, not factual content", "by thought, not by rote" and all the rest. It is suggested, not that we try to act toward Harvard without prejudice, which would be calamitous, but that we try to learn about Oxford without prejudice. We are not after all trying to make over Oxford...
...national law, for the law of nations is by no means a fixed and unchanging body of rules. It finds its sanction for the most part only in public opinion, and therefore its very nature requires a close connection with the sphere of politics. Senator Borah's sheerly legalistic ideal world court is a myth and an impossibility...
...work, and can recommend a change of concentration either to him or to the college office. This action might be taken more than it now is with much benefit to a great many students. How many go through their college course without finding a great interest, an ideal to which they can reverently devote their best energies, merely because they have gone afield in the choice of their concentration, and have no one to show them that they have...
...many go through their college course without finding a great interest, an ideal to which they can reverently devote their best energies merely because they have gone afield in the choice of their concentration...