Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Thirty-two dull, padded disquisitions (and who has not heard young instructors confess to this vice?) might give way to fifteen comparatively brilliant ones, delivered towards the end of the semester. The more the faculty become convinced that their function is to comment, not to instruct, that the ideal is not to talk fifty-seven minutes three times a week, but to use lectures as sparingly as possible, the more time the student will have at his disposal, and the more it will be borne in on him that the initiative lies with him in acquiring, through his reading...
...certainly not as satisfactory to everyone as it might be. This sport, like all other intramural sports, was designed to give every man who so desired a chance to play and to contend against others of the same ability as himself. Thus far, however, this is in ideal rather than an actuality...
...only a period of political unity and national enthusiasm could have brought forth another Goethe or a Humbolt. At that time Germany was split into sections and subjected to the armies of Napoleon. Like the post-war Germany of today it was weary of strife and lacked any unifying ideal to inspire the national consciousness. This was, nevertheless, the Germany of Goethe and Schiller,--the great creative and prolific period of German literature. Although there is no reason to suppose that the present disorder will produce another Goethe, there is equally to reason to despair of German...
...editors of the Alumni Bulletin state in their comments concerning the report of Phillips Brooks House on the commuting problem, the one ideal solution to the difficulty is to build additional Houses to care for the commuters, and to scale down the prices in all Houses, in order to put them within the reach of commuters. At present this proposal is of course impossible to effect...
...Rover believes that last week was an ideal week for the person with newsy spirit," continued Ingham, who is the brother of Katharine Brush, the authoress. "On Monday he went to the "Green Pastures' School for the young Negroes who are potential pasturers. The Rover gained entrance on the pretense that he was from the board of education. Many are the roles played by the Rover as he scoots over his course for news. Tuesday, he wrote of his friend Hannibal. Wednesday, a lady who was sent home from London in the war days by Herbert Hoover to stop...