Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Military drill is in general hard, unpleasant work. To carry a gun on the shoulder is not an exhilarating task. There is none of the glory of the gridiron. Yet even such labor becomes enjoyable when troops are well led,--when they have an inspiration. Lieutenant Morize was our ideal last year; we are confident that during this year he will once more lead us to battle on the marshes of Waverly and through the clay of Belmont...
...will throw away his poor life, which is all that remains sure to him in eternity, for the dream of a distant ideal. Surely such love is not among the beasts. Man is an animal gifted with mind, set in a world which was not made for mind. He is a being whom we may curse with reverence...
There is a gladiatorial splendor about football which makes an elemental and therefore all the more strong appeal to young men, who are usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...
...fine thing for a man to become oblivious to self in pursuing a higher ideal than egoism. It is a terrible thing for a man to become oblivious to self because the whole world appears as nothing stronger than a fantasy...
Although he wrote but little, Mr. Wendell's published works show his ideals and plans and describe his activities with great vividness. Among these articles are "An Ideal in College Athletics," published in the Monthly of December, 1888, and "Boys' Clubs," which was later quoted by Jacob A. Riis...