Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trustees, stands ready to take the step at any time. Whether or not the deplorable opposition of a few men is to be allowed to ruin an exceptional opportunity is uncertain. One united literary magazine to supplant two that are necessarily in a state of constant competition is an ideal to be striven for, and, it is to be hoped, one to be attained. PHILIP W. THAYER...
...signifies in the personal experiences of Dante. At the very outset, Dante is shown that he cannot take the direct route he had chosen, towards the light of God, because of the obstacles he had created through his own sin. Beatrice, later, reproaches him for losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual life to a somewhat lower level. And yet Dante shows his great...
...short, the policy of permanent arbitration for all disputes is possible as anultimate ideal, but it can only come through a long and slow development. As in the case of the rights of private individuals, recognition must be slow: we must gradually build up a body of law. In the meantime, we must be ready to fight, and in this connection we should remember the words of Washington's maxim that "preparation for war is the best assurance of peace. LOUIS SUSSDORFF...
Memorial Hall, as all similar eating houses, was constructed before these higher hygienic opinions began to prevail. The Harvard Union had the advantage of later ideas and very wisely adopted them; therefore it is already, and more and more will become, the ideal place in Cambridge for all members of the University to take their meals. The poorest as well as the richest can here find not only excellent food at reasonable prices, but also an environment of sociability and of quietude favorable to the best dietary conditions of health. MARTIN KELLOGG SCHERMERHORN
...Utopian dream of the I. W. W. movement is a universal strike, in which race lines and nations cease to be factors of importance. The realization of this ideal entails two assumptions: first, that the world's labor can be made to act together with sufficient concentration to obtain control of the centers of economic power; and second, that with the overthrow of capitalism syndicalism would be capable of stepping in and taking charge of affairs. The tendency of syndicalism to overemphasize the lateral interests of labor: that is, the interests of the crafts as a whole, and to slight...