Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal of personal and sympathetic contact between the officers and students of the University is emphasized by Professor George H. Chase '96, acting dean of the College in his article, "Harvard and the Individual", in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...article, Dean Chase stresses the more complete realization now than ever before of the ideal personal sympathetic understanding between the students and the authorities. The developments along these lines in recent years, he says, can perhaps best be shown by tracing the career of an undergraduate through his four years and noticing the opportunities for personal contacts which come to him in the normal course of events...
...supposing that simply because these men represent the best, a study of them will teach discrimination. That virtue may be taught just as well by comparing a second-rate man with a man of genius, as by absorbing a high standard and then referring every question to that ideal...
...Federation, one hundred of Chicago's civic and business leaders will name the conditions which this boy must fulfill in order to qualify as the best citizen in 1950. Although these men know quite well that they can not prophecy correctly, they can decide what is the present ideal of citizenship, and by pinning these ideals on some young Chicagoan, give them a humman interest and a currency which they would not have otherwise. In confining the contest to boys between fourteen and eighteen years the Federation runs the risk, of course, of selecting one who will prove a hopeless...
...Genre THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS?G. W. Morris and L. S. Wood?Oxford University Press ($1.50). An ideal, if limited, text book on the rise of the British Empire with a chapter on the U. S. Obviously a "young people's" book; but, because it is simple, direct, treats of principles rather than facts, it is of unusual interest and a new and better genre of history...