Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom she had slaved away her youth so that he could go to medical school, then fill his father's shoes as local doctor. When Anson turned up on schedule. Anna even had a wife picked...
...five-thirty, it is a wallowing in the fleshpots and an abomination before the Lord. Briefly, the time at which the House refectories are open should be set forward, and the dinner hours set at six to seven-thirty. That would be an approach to the ideal...
...single subject each year, the Harvard Inquiry now proposes to cast off its fetters and offer a series of lectures touching such dominant questions of economic, social, and political interest as may arise. A small committee appointed to study American governmental conditions will carry on the concentration ideal which, since its adoption by the youthful Inquiry in 1932, has been a successful--if somewhat narrow--policy...
...perfectly true that the present system of high-pressure football thrown on the altar of the golden calf, is not an ideal one, either from the general standpoint of sportsmanship, or from the point of view of the players. Nevertheless, it is equally true that the system has advantages, that it permits a greater expansion of lesser sports, and that in any case, it will not be altered until the Athletic Association places all sport on a sound financial basis. If and when the football system goes, West Point, since it is an unsuitable match for Harvard from the standpoint...
Last year, the CRIMSON suggested that perhaps this situation was not ideal, that it might be improved by a reduction in the number of lectures and by an increase in reading lists. It was proposed that fifteen lectures, delivered during the closing weeks of the term would serve a double purpose: such a system would relieve professors of the onus which attends bi- and tri-weekly expositions, and it would give students an opportunity to observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means...