Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only ones to voice this sentiment, yet the spirit of fair play and good sportsmanship seems to recommend this criticism as worthy of consideration on the part of the undergraduates and the Athletic Committee. The increasing tendency of college athletics is more and more towards the calculating, efficient ideal of modern business, and away from the recreative standard of true sport for sport's sake. The adoption of a progressive suggestion may mean a certain amount of sacrifice, but it is well worth while when the step tends towards better sportsmanship...
...Common Rooms of the Freshman Dormitories present an ideal place for men to become acquainted, and thus far their full value for this purpose has not been realized. Meetings of committees, societies and all organizations should be held in the Common Rooms. In order to make these three rooms the logical places for all social gatherings, interdormitory smokers might be instituted. In addition to the Glee Club rehearsals which are held in the Common Rooms now, informal entertainments could be arranged by special committees for the purpose of bringing a large number of men together. In fact the Common Rooms...
...nine aviators. As the leader of these first volunteers he made an enviable record in serving a cause which he considered worthy of his every effort. No trial of physical courage or mental bravery dismayed this pioneer. He derived strength and encouragement from his utter devotion to an ideal...
...significant thing, no doubt, is the offer of this sort of academic reward by America's greatest University. It involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed...
...sincerely hope that Dr. Hopkins may meet with success and co-operation in the attainment of this higher ideal, and that his term of office may be both fruitful and enjoyable...