Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the election of a successor to Professor Baker is a matter of more or less moment to every theatregoer, the Harvard overseers may excuse me for horning in. Mr. Eaton, I think, would be an ideal schoolmaster, and I have but one other suggestion to make. Why not an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild? Here is an institution, with an expert faculty, representing every branch of the dramatic art, including the audiences. It is an earnest organization, and it has at heart the improvement of the stage and its patrons. It might have time to join with...
...chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction. No newspaper can be a success which fails to appeal to that element of our national life...
...School, the Medical School, the Dental School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The hierarchy of the American educational system is gradually crystallizing; and with wise guidance Harvard College is assuming its own and proper place in that order. It is now free to pursue the high ideal of teaching men "how to live". To Williams and all the other colleges who are still straddling the path it can but offer its present relation to the Graduate vocational schools as evidence of what can and must be done...
...Government by the people that was Lincoln's ideal," continued the North Dakota Senator, "was transformed into a Government of the masses by the classes forming less than five percent of all the people who have, under Republican legislation and administration acquired possession of practically three-fourths of all the wealth accumulated by the labor of five generations of Americans...
Stark Young-"Admirable part of this Othello was the spirit . . . everywhere evident a long study and a great ideal for the Theatre...