Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...limited to men of 20 years of age or over; those younger, however, may gain beforehand a basis of technical, military, and international information which will be invaluable at sea. Since before receiving a commission every applicant must have served at least three months' active sea duty, the ideal plan for men nearing the required age is to enlist actively in the summer and to take the college course in the year following. Daily Princetonian
...world must be made safe for democracy, is responsible for that change. So long as public opinion is determined that the ultimate welfare of civilization demands the defeat of Germany, Prussianism is doomed. America believes now, as never before, that the fate of humanity rests with her. Such an ideal is too noble to perish. And America is to be truly thankful, not merely because of her large Army and Navy, but primarily because the nation realizes that that ideal shall not perish...
...anything else in the world, out of current revenues as nearly as possible in distinction from bonded indebtednesses. Debt is a millstone around the neck of a nation. Fortunate are the people who pay as they go. To keep as near that ideal as possible should be the desideratum of all statesmanship. Our enemies, who commonly belittle our activities, should at least know that, stupendous as has been our war preparation, we are paying an unprecedented fraction of it out of current taxation. Boston Herald
This does not mean that we should fly to the ideal of individual development. Our present largely useless "liberal" education proceeds from our inherited tendency to justify subjects on the ground that they "develop the individual," without testing either to what end they develop or whether they really develop anything...
What we need is the old intercollegiate system with its evils taken away. Intramural sport should be encouraged, but it can not be the basis of the system; the example of a University team is the ideal for which every man strives. But the old evils must be abolished; we do not wish to get back into the rut in which we have been running for the last decade. The money question has been the greatest drawback, and next to it, the elaborate system of training, both of which over-emphasize the importance of athletics. These dangers are gone...