Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evident that the proposal is in line with the one constant ideal in the Harvard concept of education intellectual freedom for the individual. How the fellowships, if established, will work out in practice is another matter. University theory and practice are two different things and innovations are often more attractive on paper than in subsequent actuality. The great problem of the new proposal will be to imbue its spirit into the flesh of University administration. While grades, theses, and courses dominate the standards of University Hall, it will be exceedingly difficult to select the basic material for the fellowships...
Response to appeals for candidates in extra-curricular activities competitions by the class of 1934, as compared to recent years, has been gratifying, although leaving a wide margin for improvement. Compared to the records of the classes of 1932 and 1933 this same record seems an Utopian ideal realized...
...very pertinent consideration of the problem. To meet the distribution demands by elementary Philosophy, a man may take course A, or a year of the following half courses: 1, 1a, or B. However good or bad these courses may be, they are not suited for this purpose. Two ideal approaches to Philosophy are possible but the present courses do not measure up to standard...
...means: "It is unnatural. It is a monster that has been born into our modern world. A cold reptilian blood flows in its veins. It possesses the science of civilization without its mercy, the fanaticism of religion without its God, the exploitation of human passions and appetites without any ideal beyond their gratification-and that is not achieved." Alluding sarcastically to the numerous U. S., British, French and German citizens who have done business with the Soviet Government, Slasher Churchill mentioned particularly "young Mr. [William Averell] Harriman," thrust home this characteristic conclusion: "All in turn have sought to clasp that...
...book is written with the intention of exposing professionalism in college athletics and Mr. Hall does so by satirizing conditions at a typical state university. Through one of his characters he indicts American amateur athletics vigorously and upholds the English ideal "sport for sport's sake." The story is trite, similar to any cinema of college life, and typical of the kind of stuff that appears in the popular fiction magazines. Even the indictment of athletics is outworn in this day when a change for the better has taken place and the football overemphasis bugaboo has been pretty well dispelled...