Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have taken service with the American Ambulance in France, a service at once arduous, requiring skill, strength and devotion, and not free from danger. While they have taken service with the French and served loyally, they have not the less taken service in defence of the great American ideal of democracy." It is in this class that the Harvard Surgical units really belong. We may well agree with Dr. Cabot when he says that "it is peculiarly appropriate that Harvard, founded under the ideals of Anglo-Saxon civilization, founded to uphold the cause of liberty and freedom, should have been...
...such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language used to Mars is ill chosen, it had better be changed. Many people declare that Mexican would be the ideal tongue. Perhaps it would. Or Bulgarian...
...considering the organization of a system for establishing and maintaining world peace, we must refrain from over idealization; although we look to an ideal to which our proposed system aims to attain, our principal attention must be focused on the factors to be considered at the birth and during the infancy of our system...
...make even one valuable objection. There may not be a "high seriousness" in evidence, but there is a delightful tickling of the aesthetic senses. And so Aristotle might not have thought of "Pierrot the Prodigal" as the highest form of "kitharsis" but he would unquestionably have called it an ideal evening's entertainment...
...favor of some form of universal military train- ing?", but "Are you in favor of any system of universal military training which is made compulsory?" And on this question, involving a departure from the spirit and tradition of America and from what we have conceived to be the ideal of all government as deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed, Harvard is asked to register a categorical opinion without any opportunity to give the question that deliberate consideration which its importance makes it deserve. Under these circumstances the result will signify little else than a generous desire...