Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visa, ordinarily $2.33, is reduced to 47? for the Paris Exposition Season this spring and summer, with 50% reduction to Exposition visitors of all French rail fares. Italy offers similar inducements and the recent devaluation of French francs, Belgian francs, Dutch gulden, Swiss francs and Italian lire make these ideal post-Coronation countries, cheaper today by some 20% to 40% than they were in 1936 and better bargains than they will be in 1938 as prices inevitably rise to offset devaluation. Canadians are in the same state of mind as U. S. citizens and last week Canadian Pacific had many...
...foreshadowed in the Tercentenary address, is to "find the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition and mold it to suit our age", "the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future" with real breadth of vision. It is a fine ideal, carrying with it a willingness to experiment beyond present educational bounds and a determination to offer more and more to students...
...catholic and philosophy inquiry into American history, including the cultural, scientific, social and economic aspects, was chosen because it most nearly approximated the ideal-that of giving students the opportunity to grasp what are or should be the fundamental realities of contemporary society and their evolution from the past. A specific illustration is the current discussion of the Supreme Court, the misinformation expressed and the lack of understanding shown by partisans on both sides. Yet the question is as pertinent and as closely related to any individual as the memorandum on his office desk or the test tube...
Although the needy clients of the Bureau have in the past found its services invaluable, even greater advantages are gained by the law students for whom it forms an ideal clinical outlet. As other professional schools, such as those of medicine and dentistry, have found charity work of this kind a happy supplement to the more theoretical studies of the classroom, so the untried legal minds of Harvard should gain valuable experience from these practical contacts with...
...University Hall to adapt the conditions under which the contest operates to the demands of modern times. For only by making the contest a competition in writing and delivering original material can the Lee Wade and Boylston awards proceed further in their purpose to stimulate and develop the ideal of effective public speaking in the college...