Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quac and sending him back to his execution. Bearded Sikh policemen in Singapore arrested the French Communist Serge La France and shipped a bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After studying this batch of evidence the French Colonial Office realized that the guillotine may not have been the ideal cure. Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud left his desk in Paris and hurried East for four months. While he is in Indo-China beheadings will be suspended. Said a spokesman for Paul Reynaud, "M. Le Ministre will examine sympathetically native grievances...
...open to censure, and admit that the plan adopted is really an attempted explanation of an already justified policy. But what matters most, however, is that Harvard undergraduates, graduates, and friends will have the opportunity to contribute to charity in a manner which at least comes close to approximating ideal giving...
...together men from different fields, but casual conversation, with its tendency to stay on the surface, does not produce the intellectual clash, and consequent examination of fundamentals, which ought to make the Houses vital intellectual influences as well as superior eating clubs. The plan for House forums is an ideal one; its realization would be difficult. But the prize is worth all the effort which can go toward attaining...
...most significant aspect of the omission of Latin concerns the cultural consequences. The gain in precision and style in writing English resulting from even an elementary classical training is too well recognized to need comment. Another result equally important but less tangible is the passing of the ideal of Bacon's "full man," who values cultural studies for their subjective richness more than practical subjects and their immediate advantages. More and more, colleges are feeling themselves accountable to their alumni for the adequacy of their gradates as wage-earners, not as well-rounded human beings. The products of such...
Tentative plans of the administration reveal what will be perhaps one of the greatest steps of the University toward the advancement of culture. Altho no definite program has been arranged, the system of "vagabonding" holds many potential advantages. With the realization of the ideal, Hill undergraduates will be possessors of the means of being able to secure one of the most complete educations offered in the country...