Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which does not end in recrimination and violence, no meeting of Vridar and Neloa which is free from physical horror, blows, screams, and tears. Naturalism in character portrayal, when it is essayed by a writer whose philosophy is as dark as Mr. Fisher's, must always become picaresque; the ideal hero may have lost his significance, but the actual villain is always with...
...from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...Ideal University--Great Scholars and Able Students
...privately endowed institution. It is particularly difficult if he comes from a distance. Yet we should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work; today our fellowship and scholarship funds are woefully inadequate. In my opinion we should have a large number of fellowships paying as much as twelve hundred dollars. The universities in this country should be the apex of a pyramid based on our highly developed school...
...perpetuate learning." But Mr. Conant states explicitly that the first of these two objectives is the more important, and the practical impact of this preference, on faculty and on students alike, must mean a decisive change from the Harvard of Presidents Eliot and Lowell. Mr. Conant reaffirms the ideal of a faculty distinguished in teaching and in research; but his policy will be shaped to meet a faculty that cannot realize this double ideal, and it will be shaped on an acceptance of the prior claims of research. For the growth of the tutorial system the question is a central...