Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brought all of us together under one banner. We had a common ideal. We were eager to sacrifice for one common purpose. What will be our ideal now that the war has ended? Will we work together for the common good, or will there be a breaking up of a great national purpose into a number of conflicting, smaller, and more selfish purposes...
...care must be taken to give instruction in facts and allow individual opinion to follow its natural bent. To attempt a whole sale direction of the thoughts and reasoning power of the young is to create a nation of Germans, who think in platoons and whose highest ideal in personal conduct does not rise above blind obedience to their superior officers...
...positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words to the Harvard regiment on the platform of Sanders Theatre in August, 1917, were: "If I ever...
From a purely economic point of view taxation is the ideal method. War burdens cannot be shifted to the next generation, but hampering posterity by a bond issue can be prevented by levying the financial cost solely on present society. Moreover, taxation means a distribution of the burden according to ability to pay. It is as democratic as the conscription of an army; it will bring in exactly the desired amount; and it is certain in action. Conscription of wealth is in many respects ideal...
Knox and Adams in the Yale boat toppled over exhausted, but were soon revived. J. F. Linder '19 of the University crew succumbed to the heat, but was aided from his seat upon reaching the float. Though the calm water was ideal for rowing, the intense humidity and lack of breeze caused the oarsmen great suffering...