Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...property to which the University has fallen heir consists of he income from several corporations controlled by Mr. Ward. The University is now the virtual owner of the Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Corporation and the Lister and Gum Corporation...
With the first perfect spring day and almost ideal conditions on Soldiers Field, Coach Mahan's baseball candidates turned out for their first outside practice yesterday afternoon. The early start promises well for exceptional preliminary progress as it is the earliest date in several years that diamond practice has begun. Instead of the one day outside that the 1924 team had before its first game, Coach Mahan expects two full weeks of practice before his nine meets Boston University on April...
...authority can be acknowledge before it has made itself good, and none can be rejected until it (i.e. the claim) has failed to make good, the function of education in a democratic community has been served; freedom has been safeguarded." Immediately afterwards he questions whether this rather cumbersomely expressed ideal will ever be realized. He fears that the complex organization imposed on the American educational system kills the spirit of independent inquiry. This picture is indeed repulsive; unfortunately it is to a great extent true. The constant reactions against the present system of education, as expressed for example...
...feature of the American Constitutional system has received more praise than the principle of checks and balances. The Senate's rejection of Mr. Warren's nomination is an almost ideal example of the operation of this principle in practice...
...have found time and opportunity to develop their bodies and their social natures, and at the same time, to achieve distinction in their studies, deserve the highest honors the University can bestow upon them. Undergraduates already recognize them as leaders. The other group--the worshippers of a "Rank List" ideal need help of some kind from the College to put them on the path toward complete development. This is just as truly a duty as that of keeping tab on a student's academic standing, for after all, a college has only one function, that of training...