Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both economic and political, out all long-range planning on the knees of the gods and the populace. To President Conant, as to all educators, the teachers' oath bill rang out like a fire-bell in the night. Still, as he said, Harvard's three-hundredth anniversary is the ideal time to show the contributions of such an institution to the public welfare...
With a stiff breeze and chop as well as a strong current making rowing conditions far from ideal, Coach Whiteside's Varsity eights splashed up to the second bridge and back yesterday on their first trip this year. The number one boat went remarkably well considering the circumstances, although adjustment of riggers and slides tended to make the boat difficult...
...dining halls. An equitable breakfast rate would be a long step forward. Some such consideration is needed to make the houses financially attractive to those who eat outside, and a concession of this sort might pave the way for a successful solution of the problem within the cross-section ideal...
Typical of this period, portraiture has been subordinated to the artist's desire of representing an ideal knight. The serene, dignified features of the effigy, majestically draped folds of the robe, and the time-scarred yet well preserved surface of the wood lends an atmosphere of permanence to this old statue which has reclined so calmly on its slab for over five centuries...
...college work, but because he was "pursuing" poetry, he asserted. "Perhaps it was rather a lazy pursuit," he admitted, "but I was restless, and had the urge to write. It seems to me that the process of all creative writing is the eternal seeking for the expression of an ideal-aiming at a perfect conception which we never quite hit. With each successive effort we think we have it, but somehow we just barely miss...