Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students attending are under careful oversight. The excellence of food, sanitation, and medical care has been well maintained. The students have an ideal five weeks' outing, pleasurable and beneficial to them; and the instruction, drill, cavalry exercises, field manoeuvres, field surveying and field work generally, give them in the continuous five weeks training an insight into military matters. They are, in addition to this regular work, given ample time for recreation and rest...
...will have their spring practice on the Housatonic River, below Derby, on a four-mile course which the committee has recommended. Temporary quarters will be erected for housing the shells and for crew dressing-rooms. The crews will abandon the harbor entirely. Should the Housatonic prove to be an ideal course, arrangements will be made to transfer by barges the George Adee boathouse, which cost $100,000 to erect. The need of funds to move the boathouse seems to be the only drawback to the proposition...
...gone all night and had plenty of opportunity to escape, yet the next day, all returned. Afterward one of the party came to Mr. Osborne and said: "Ain't it too bad more of them aren't like you and me? If they was, this world would be an ideal place...
...hope that this tragic situation--the catastrophe of greatness, induced, partly, at least through the faults of its virtues--will have a solution worthy of the noble ideals that sustained Germany's upward flight. Let us hope that it will lead to the purging, purifying, and strengthening of German greatness through this fearful trial. A letter received recently from a German judge, now fighting as lieutenant on the Russian frontier, points to such a hope. He writes: 'The conduct of our men in this war is beyond all praise. Whatever may be the outcome of the war, the German people...
...Herrick will act as head coach and direct the general policy while Mr. Haines will be with the crews daily and give the men individual instruction in the art of handling an oar. This arrangement appears to be ideal as it combines at the same time graduate and professional training. Mr. Herrick will act as a buffer for graduate advice and criticism which he will carefully sift out and pass on to Mr. Haines. The latter will thus be free to carry out his program unhampered by "too many cooks...