Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shift of emphasis from the idea of an artist as a man removed from the ordinary course of life by his inspiration and genius to the conception of an artist as an excellent workman--one who intends his product for use in every-day life. It is an ideal very close to that of Bach who wrote his cantata and his chorale prelude for the next Sunday because that was his job, and, as a good workman, he did his job as best he could in whatever situation he found himself. Of course, one cannot discount the sparkle of ingenuity...
...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
...them at Harvard. It has already been mentioned that such coaches will have more work to do. This work will be dealing with a far larger body of men than heretofore and hence will be less directly influential. But if coaches can see the "sport for sport's sake" ideal of the plan, they will fit into their new niches in much the same manner, at least in the individual sports, as club professionals. Their tenure will be secure, and their indirect influence vastly greater than at present...
...sports will have more money placed in their barren coffers than they have ever had up to the present time. But, let it be remembered, that if this scheme is born of the present in view of the budget, it is also of the future in view of the ideal...
Harvard's Student Council has seen that it is good, this land of milk and honey which lies across the Jordan. The Councilors have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...