Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the above plan, it would be advisable not to break up a group of men trying to enter the same House, but merely to take care that that end of the cross-section in the House should not become over-balanced. In any case, the ideal of a cross-section should be fulfilled much more satisfactorily than now when it is far too little considered. Naturally the classification of the types of the cross-section must be broad and fairly elastic, but an intelligent central committee should be able to even out the present dissimilarities in the memberships...
...best on the air. Greta Keller has started making U. S. records. Best one so far is "Willow Weep for Me" (Brunswick). But her talent is wasted on stereotype jazz. With her warm, persuasive voice she can establish a dozen different moods. Critics have spotted her as an ideal performer for any brewery which, in the next year or so, decides to do its beer advertising with leisurely, old-fashioned melody...
...subject of the graduate schools, he admonished the Freshmen not to major in some subject which would merely help them in graduate study, for "to have but one interest is far from the ideal...
There are some distinct advantages to the physical side of Kirkland House. It is the smallest of the House units with 207 members. For this reason it more closely approaches the ideal size than any of the other Houses. The residents of a small unit tend to be more congenial toward one another and have the advantage of closer contact with the tutors and the House Master...
...undoubtedly characterized by a certain feeling of complacency at its own independence and self-sufficiency. Paradoxically, it is one of the least homogeneous of the seven Houses, having within its walls a variety of different groups and circles which make no attempt to mingle with each other. The ideal cross-section is most nearly realized here in organization, and the very number of the groups almost assures the new House member that he will find his place in one or the other of them...