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Benito Dixit: "Women are trusting, confiding little animals. When a man tells a woman that he loves her, she makes it a point to believe him, no matter how many times she may already have been deceived. She believes him because she is an idealist, and being loved is an ideal condition. She believes him because she is romantic, and the state or condition of loving and being loved is a romantic one. Oh, when it is a question of imagination, women are far superior...
Toward the end Sir Lancelot says, ". . . though Galahad is unusual, I doubt if he will ever become typical," which might be as aptly said of many a strapping young idealist now studying sociology at Columbia or Stanford instead of chivalry at Camelot...
Then too, he is an unparalleled idealist in an age when idealism is regarded as useless if not made. In a college where this quality is considered fit only for Y-men and aesthetes, it has been immensely salutary to find it also the life of a great teacher...
Recent researches at Wesleyan, Princeton and Yale have revealed the fact that Woodrow Wilson, idealist, man of destiny, political philosopher, was once an eager football strategist. In 1878 he coached a Princeton eleven which defeated both Yale and Harvard and won the first of the "Big Three" championships (see p. 32). Then he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., officially as a history professor-but little time was lost in making him a member of the football advisory board. Soon Wesleyan teams began to baffle their cumbersome rush-line opponents with crafty off-tackle plunges, with neat crisscross plays...
Juarez and Maximilian-Downfall of an idealist; employing the incident of Maximilian von Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico. For those who take their theatre thoughtfully...