Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading toward the goal of an endowment fund large enough to divorce the sports program from dependence on gate receipts. If minor sports are permanently to be retained, and if a successful intra-mural program is to be developed, President Conant must propagate with all his energies the endowment ideal among the alumni, and it is to be hoped that not a few benevolent philanthropists will be uncovered to put the plan on its feet...
President-Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell spoke briefly and with feeling for the man who worked for so many years under him. He stressed the fact that Mr. Penypacker's experience as Headmaster of the Boston Latin School served him well in his Harvard position, making him ideal as a member of the admissions committee...
...club life of your city. . . . Your profession has no particular claim to distinction in this respect. . . . Our educational system has been too virile in production of men immunized from a sense of feeling of social responsibility; trained in the art of plunder in gentlemanly ways; imbued with the false ideal that the American way means exploitation...
Illustrating from the old Prussian bureaucracy, whose history he traced from the Constitution of Weimar in 1813, he declared that the system only worked when men of the highest calibre had control of the machinery. When the ideal of self-administration in the states and townships of the German Federation had been fairly well established, Bruening said, laws were more of a directive character than an attempt to fit every case. He said that adaptability and elasticity characterized this legislation...
...Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented John Sebastian Bach's magnificent St. Matthew Passion for the first time in these parts in several years. The results so pleased Dr. Koussevitzy that he determined to repeat the work this year in the ideal manner--that is on Good Friday. Thus, today is the date of the performance of the greatest of all Passion music, which is to be given at Symphony Hall in two parts: 4:30 p. m. and after an intermission...