Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing to the imminent doom of amateurism in athletics the country over, Mr. Bingham has put his finger on a problem that strikes the roots of Harvard's athletic tradition. Dedicated to the strictest amateur ideal, Harvard is threatened on all sides by the amazing growth of professionalism which has developed during the past decades. If box-office interests continue to rule the sport, the college will soon face a situation where no teams of similar standards can be found for the schedule...
Unfortunately Yale has not been alone in the abandonment of this responsibility. The ill-fated Bingham Plan also served notice that Harvard was not willing to cast aside a precedent which had been founded on this ideal of Big Three athletic leadership. And lest Princeton be hasty in assuming a holier-than-thou attitude, there has been many a raised eyebrow at the well-publicised added attraction this Saturday which will undoubtedly build up an otherwise modest attendance in Palmer Stadium...
Connecticut's hilly preen Litchficld County has seemed to two young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations...
...will of the God who intended the earth to be beautiful. We could banish poverty tomorrow if this thing of the Kingdom of God were taken seriously by Christians. We have the technique, science, everything to do away with poverty. All we lack is the collective good will. . . . The ideal of the Kingdom of God on earth does away with the equality between earth and heaven. The problem is to bring together these worlds into a great unity of life. I believe that the Kingdom of God has a wonderfully individual and collective meaning. But I believe that in order...
...even the fundamental character of Harvard had left its impression on Mr. Roosevelt during his undergraduate days, he would now find it impossible to lead the New Deal. For almost two centuries and a half the leaders of this University fought for one ideal against church and state. They believed that no class in the population had the right to carry out self-seeking designs at the expense of another class. Mr. Roosevelt, with his rabble-rousing talk about "economic royalists," with his subtle encroachment upon freedom of thought through his outbursts against those of an opinion different from...