Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public. In Maine and Pennsylvania, where no same young Democrat ever bothered to aspire to state office, the Democratic governors may spawn a dual-partisanship that has always been sadly lacking. In other states where Republican rule has been shorter but no less flabby, party "patronage" could be the ideal antidote for early symptoms of corruption...
...history of this gentlemanly ideal goes back before the turn of the country when Princeton introduced its honor system. Today this sixty-year old system is considered one of the college's most cherished institutions. It is based on the principles that every man is on his honor not to give or receive aid in an examination; and that any student observing an infraction of this rule is honor bound to report...
...gentlemanly ideal origination in freshman year, then it is doubly strengthened during the last two years when juniors and seniors join an upperclass eating club. Here in the gracious atmosphere of linen tablecloths and heavy leather chairs the upperclassman eats, entertains his female friends, and holds his parties...
...very physical set-up the colleges makes this ideal difficult except in the perceptional meeting or the new Campus center. For upperclassmen eat by themselves in their clubs and live in dormitories without faculty. And the lowerclassmen eat by themselves and also live in dormitories without faculty...
...Shepherd or the straightforward lilt of I've Got to Crow. And with the original Barrie story very much cut into but seldom seeming cut, Peter Pan comes off a bit more of a long show than a fully sustained entertainment. Barrie and Broadway are not quite an ideal couple. But their marriage has been celebrated with truly festive splash and animation...