Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Claude Rains, Granville Barker's manager, who is handling the productions in the Stadium, when interviewed concerning the rehearsals, spoke very strongly of the difficult work involved. "In Mr. Barker's ideal school for acting," he said, "the actors would all be taught to fence, to ride, to wrestle, to run across country, to raise, lower, and modulate the voice for a period of at least four years. The feeling of colors, tones, and rhythms, melodies, harmonies, all that sort of thing would be developed in each student to the limit of his individual capacity. Physical perfection is, of course...
...Under ideal weather conditions the University oarsmen jumped into a lead of several yards at the start, and when a third of a mile had been covered, they led by more than half a length, pulling a stroke of 35, while Annapolis was working at 40 strokes to the minute. When the course was half covered Harvard had raised the stroke to 36 and there was open water between the shells. The Midshipmen tried to pull up but failed, and when the University found Annapolis unable to hold its place, it dropped to a lower and longer stroke, but continued...
...Berle advocates a state university for Massachusetts, dealing wholly with one side of a question which has been agitated a great deal lately. This university, be claims, would not merely duplicate what is now in existence, but would be "the old university made over, inspired with the ideal of serving all the people, and vitalized by the service itself." The impression conveyed seems to be that our old universities, at best copies of the European ones, have hardened into a traditional and unpractical from, whereby they benefit the few and disregard the many; that those who come to them...
France, on the other hand, has a great ideal, the "blue sky limit" as M. LeRoux phrased it, which looks toward the uplift of humanity and the altruism of man, not the "objects on the ground" of the Germans. France is not seeking aggrandizement but rather the protection of her women and children, the preservation of her homes...
...your issue for March 15, there appears an attack on Militarism, rather thinly disguised under a discussion of the summer camps. In discussion this subject, one should not fall so much in love with the ideal of universal peace as to neglect the importance of Militarism as a factor in the civilization of today. War on a large scale is, and has been, less of a probability for this nation than for any other; but war is a probability and as such should not be overlooked in our dreams of Millenium. The aim of the campaign of the socalled militarists...