Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guarantees that it will not be another halfhearted attempt to alter matters for the better. And looking at the special circumstances of the University's nearness to Boston there seems to be every reason for predicting success to the reorganized bureau. Once its aims are fully realized the American ideal of education for all who desire it will not seem as Utopian in Cambridge as it may seem...
...Rhodes Scholars and a scattering of British notables-Viscount Grey, Viscount Milner, Rudyard Kipling. It seemed that Greene had given the impression that, to all Americans attending it, Oxford was a disappointment; that all were eager to be home again; that the Fabian Society (Socialist) was the British ideal most acceptable to Americans; that Ramsay MacDonald was to Americans the ideal British statesman. A heavyset, earnest young man arose, addressed the chair. Soft-voiced, but serious, this was one Edward Egan, Yale Rhodes Scholar at New College, incidentally the amateur heavyweight boxing champion of all Britain. Egan begged to inform...
...Industry is on the way toward individual direction and ownership. Agriculture has continuously maintained its individualistic character and among the farming artels neither the character of the families engaged for the quality of the finally measurable returns lead the most enthusiastic doctrinaire to expect any strengthening of the collectivist ideal among the people of Russia...
Parterre boxes are not necessarily the ideal place from which to enjoy an opera. Those nearest the stage are signally bad?both for eye and ear. On the other hand, they are admirable localities from which to be seen; and their owners or lessees are as a rule extremely amiable about permitting the less exalted attendance to concentrate admiring gazes upon a galaxy of beauty, gems, gowns, furs...
...England "just for pleasure, absolutely". Incidentally he plans to buy out his largest English competitor, who happens to be, Sir Beauchamp, the father of "the girl". Unfortunately, you see, he, too, has sullied his hands in "trade". The violent prejudices of the old people threaten to spoil "the ideal" and the "affair" of the young people as well; but the generous and sympathetic intervention of Lady Beauchamp, who is American-made, and the "chip of the old block" pep and head-work of "the clever young American" insure an amicable result. Here it is that the author proves that...