Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatic critics. It will play to full houses and the resultant full cash boxes in Boston regardless of what the critics say. The natural temptation is to follow the lead of Messrs. Benchley, Broun, and Nathan, and make a joke of the whole thing. Here is a play ideal for the humorous review, and the seats in Row V--V not, in this case, meaning five--which the management graciously bestowed upon this department might reasonably inspire humor of the citrous sort. "Abie's Irish Rose" has, however, become a phenomenon--the press notices boastfully say so--and, whatever...
...sing, as a strong man rejoices to run a race. Teaching is an art an art so great and so difficult to master that a man or woman can spend a long life at it, without realizing much more than his limitations and mistakes, and his distance from the ideal. But the main aim of my happy days has been to become a good teacher, just as every architect wishes to be a good architect, and every professional poet strives toward perfection. William Lyon Phelps in the Boston Transcript...
...CRIMSON believes that all criticisms of Harvard, to be constructive, must proceed from careful thought concerning what Harvard ought to be. This in turn will depend upon what the ideal Harvard graduate ought...
That college faculties and college students have in the past worked at cross purposes because the former have tended to emphasize the scholarly ideal to the exclusion of all else, and the latter have too often been content to pursue a more or less animal ideal to the detriment of their mental development; while the development of character has been left almost wholly to the student to pick up as best he might...
...changes as these were effected, such popular caricatures as the goggle-eyed Phi Beta Kappa man on the one extreme and the ox-like tramp-athlete on the other would disappear from the Yard, and there would remain to pursue their fullest development those who hold to the Greek ideal--the normal, healthy, intelligent students...