Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing prominence of Latin athletes Heywood Broun envisions the approaching displacement of the Spartan ideal of ascetic preparation by an Athenian regime of unrestrained living and joyous unconcern. The gloomy "Nos" and "Do nots" of Calvinistic coaches are to be replaced by red wine and an engaging spirit of good fellowship. The "fight talk" of between halves, which can only be compared with the "miserable sinners repent" discourses of Puritan ancestors, will give way to an informal mingling of the athletes with the spectators...
...existent creature--the college man--one never thinks of furrowed brow or snow white locks. A dapper youth with ruddy face and varnished hair, in some non-chalant pose upon a Hart, Schaffner--& Marx background, is the popular conception of this mystical creature. The reading public will find its ideal rudely shattered by an article in December "Sribner's" called "A Freshman Again at Sixty...
...Olds spoke on "The Making of a College," referring to ideal college trustees as "a spur rather than a curb...
...place Mr. du Fais would do away with all old buildings which have outgrown their usefulness and are merely kept for the sake of tradition. In this class he places Grays Hall and Boylston Chemical Laboratory. If they were torn down he thinks that their site would be the ideal location for the proposed Memorial Church or Chapel, since the chapel would be placed in approximately the center of University life...
...never come if the force of young minds is consistently turned into certain preconceived channels. The Public School is a place for training the mind to make its own decision on any problems that may arise and not for imposing upon the mind the decisions of others. This ideal of intellectual freedom is unattainable in a world where everyone is convinced of the absolute truth of all his own beliefs, but the ideal should be kept in sight, not cast lightly away...