Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holiday," the fall production of the Radcliffe Idler Club, given last night at Agassiz Theatre, proved to be a rather drawn-out presentation of the commonplace situations and, hackneyed problems connected with the lives of America's aristocracy of wealth. The fundamental problem is this: should one postulate an ideal of wealth as the basis of human existence or should one go out into the wilds far from monetary cares amid the birds and fish and there look at one's soul. All this is quite apparent at the end of the second act, which by the way, is brilliant...
...much use has been made of the victrola which has been installed since the beginning of the year, that a second one has been acquired and placed in the Junior Common room. Recordings correspond to a list compiled by the Carnegie Foundation as an ideal representative group for use in colleges. Half the records have already arrived while the others, many of which are being sent from Europe, will be here soon. In connection with the phonograph records, Lowell House has also received a set of over 150 miniature scores, which may be read while listening to the records...
Although this is probably true of the average college student, the huge vagueness of his ideal in its undoing. He is as unpractical as any young intellectual who voted for Norman Thomas, honestly inspired by a shadowy Utopianism. The same lack of practically applies to the conference. They would erect ideals and plan remedies for a distant future of which they have no conception, forgetting how useless it is to reform something that does not exist and may never exist. Overestimating the influence of the university on society they ignore that society, and hopefully strive to establish theories...
...either the man or his time. His appraisal of the man differs markedly from that of Rockefeller's early muckrackers, William D. Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, who wrote before the great philanthropies had mellowed public sentiment and mergers had become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come to doubt as sound public policy. Valid criticism of Rockefeller should be based upon his lust for profits. The Standard Oil showed as little consideration...
...championed, we must acknowledge that they championed, we must acknowledge that they championed it with loyalty and courage. No matter how sincerely we reject the spirit that animated them, it is only generous to remember that they were equally sincere in following that spirit. No matter how misguided their ideal, as we see it, they supported their deal with valor and surrendered their lives to what they considered truth; hence, they are entitled to the name of hero and martyr. Heroism transcends the fleeting concepts of any single group or time. It must bespeak a noble answer to the call...