Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These things are highly pleasant, but they do not compose Christmas. They are no more Christmas than the small boy's ideal of a time when he receives the consummation of all his dreams, and eats more than a small boy should ever...
...fall and at about the present time there begins a determined and wide-spread hunt for suitable snap courses, or in other words courses that are supposed to yield a maximum amount of something in return for a minimum amount of nothing. The ideal course of this kind would be one which met once a year at the pleasure of the instructor, and it is certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit...
...countries after the war but I cannot close without expressing the belief that the war will bring a new life to all the nation's engaged in it. May we not hope that the universal striving for inner reconstruction, the newly-awakened longing for a higher civic consciousness, the ideal of a national life devoted to the cultivation of the highest powers of the individual, will finally quench the blind passions and violent hatreds inflamed by the war, so that a regenerated Europe will more firmly-than ever before, believe in international brotherhood...
...every work, done fairly and joyously for our college, we are in reality paying to you deep and loyal tribute. For with the eye of truth you saw--dimly perhaps and far away--a future college of breadth and strength and forward marching progress; and believing in that ideal you gave lavishly of your, worldly store to further it. Where others saw a possibility, you clearly saw a certainty, and your sacrifice has led to our presence here today...
...views on education, however, should most interest us. In a recent book entitled, "The American College," he discusses the advantages of a liberal over a technical education, an ideal which Harvard has always maintained. Under Dr. Sharpless' leadership, Haverford has not adopted the often ill-chosen title of "University." It has not entered the competition for numerical leadership, but has remained with Williams and Dartmouth, and indeed with such universities as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, as protestants to the modern commerialization of higher education...