Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy announced by the Yale News in the editorial reprinted below is one which will meet with hearty sympathy at Harvard. It clearly recognizes that freedom and the ideal of a liberal education are the goals toward which the students of the Eastern universities must strive. It is far from radical; ardent reformers will criticize it for that reason. It does, however, offer a sound liberal program whose merit lies in the fact that it can--and ought--to be carried...
...result no appealing sportsman-like tradition has been evolved. Such men cast aside the ideal of a wellbalancd life, renounce athletics, social service, a hundred activities--even pleasure--for a selfish desire for classroom preeminence, deny the principle of reciprocity, and never once feel that they owe some self sacrificing service to the college which is doing much for them. Is it any wonder that the first and larger group feels some contempt for this type of student and this kind of scholastic activity...
...started the Ethical Movement in 1876, and has ever since been its active leader. His numerous books. Some of which have been translated into several European languages and Japanese, include "An Ethical Philosophy of Life," "Marriage and Divorce," "More Instruction of Children", and last "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal" containing the Hibbert Lectures he gave at Oxford since he last spoke in Boston...
Just as the skyscraper has grown out of America's industrial and commercial greatness, so, in time, will there develope a style in college architecture to represent America's cultural ideal. What this style will be, time will determine. If it is to be truly representative of America, it must be a pure American expression, without suggestion of European models...
...Each of these parties has a different ideal for the new Germany. The Nationalists do a lot of talking and appear to be powerful, especially as they are at present in office, but the Socialists are really the strongest of the three. The Nationalists are in power today only because the Socialists encountered several difficulties in their application of the Dawes plan, and because the Republicans are supporting the Nationalists for the present...