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...Austin, a tireless worker, has unflagging enthusiasm for U.N. Says he: "Practice, difficult at first, will develop into custom, custom into faith. . . ." Though an idealist (and a sentimentalist at times), Austin has a hard Yankee core, and likes to win. But, says he: "The will to win should generate the will to do justice...
What manner of man is Mr. Conant's tough-minded idealist, on whom he pins so much hope? Seemingly, he must walk the razor's edge between cynicism and sentimentalism, a man of faith, but yet one who constantly submits that faith to rigorous analysis and criticism. A man determined not to confine his ideals to noble platitudes, but to afford them real meaning by comparison of various concrete approximations of those ideals. And, finally, not a revolutionist, yet something more than a gradualist--a believer in "rapid evolution...
...President Conant thought such individuals are probably born, not made, and that education would not alter the degree of tough-mindedness, it could "modify the ambitions and goals of many men. If I am right in this and there be merit in my preference for a certain type of idealist, the way certain problems are handled in our universities may have considerable influence on the future of this nation...
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...tough-minded idealist," he said, "all phrases which describe noble sentiments are subjects for analysis. Some he may find largely poetical expressions to be defined only in terms of the emotions they evoke many others, including the description of such American ideals as 'equality of opportunity' and 'social justice' on the other hand, he will find to have real content...