Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct of negotiations. . . . We must honor the request for discussion [of debts] by nations who have sought to maintain their obligations to us. ... The discussion of debts is necessarily connected with the solution of the major problems at the World Economic Conference and the Arms Conference. . . . The ideal way therefore would seem to be that some of our representatives should be selected at once who can perform both these functions of preparing for the World Economic Conference and exchange views upon the debt question with certain nations at once. It would be an advantage for some of them...
...situation. It serves to emphasize the mediocrity of the profession as a whole and it demonstrates the general inferiority and inadequacy in the educational training falsities of the country. Normal schools everywhere should be jacked up if they are not to be conspicuous for their uselessness. Perhaps an ideal school for training teachers will be an impossibility for a long time to come. But the successful placement of the graduates of the Harvard Graduate School is a striking illustration of the crying need for more satisfactory schools of education...
...counsel does not cease with the proof of success. There is no question that the President's policy has rained the educational standards of the average man. But the founder attempts to delude neither himself nor his successor. The ideal embraced move than the improvement of the average; for were it to stop there, were there no means to encourage the full development of exceptional ability, mediocrity would be in inevitable character and ultimate frustration. President Lowell reiterates his plan for the foundation of the Society of Fellows...
...bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder, he outlines, for the guidance of those who must carry on, the foundations upon which his work has rested and upon which theirs must rest, if it is to fulfill the ideal...
...reason to believe will not sell in quantities, and such organizations as the 'American Council of Learned Societies' are obviously unable to finance any material number of articles. This leaves the brunt of responsibility for this important work on the universities. And here, as everywhere else, conditions are not ideal. It is difficult to get university presses successfully started. More consideration should be given to them, as they are at present poorly endowed...