Word: idealizes
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Interesting as this concept may be, it differs radically from the ideal of what the houses should be. A House is not a fraternity, and no member of it should be required to be the friend of any other member. The House offers, in addition to physical advantages, an opportunity for persons with similar interests to become acquainted, and for this reason it should contain a 'cross-section" representative of all intellectual groups. The House Plan also extends advantages which were once the sole possession of clubs and fraternities to all the members of the college. But a House...
...ideal of such a theatre would not be vocational, although the training of actors and actresses might result. Its aim would be twofold: to teach the art of the theatre and to give men personal experiences of the greatest dramatic literature. It is too often forgotten that the theatre is in itself an art similar to that of painting or music and it is also forgotten that real education is a process of inner experience. The theatre is the natural field of dramatic experience...
There is no reason why concentration in the theatre could not be offered within the general field of English for such a study of the traditional drama as one of the greatest of the humanities would be real and powerful education. The Dramatic Club is far from this ideal at the present time. But there is no reason why it should not serve as the nucleus for such a group. If it can prove itself in "Napoleon Intrudes" it might well come to fill the position vacated by the Cambridge School of the Drama and eventually it might become such...
Technically, the course is practically ideal: besides the midyear and final examinations, there are, during the whole year, three hour exams, and a thesis to be written during the Spring. For almost every assignment there is wide choice of reading and accordingly diversified exam papers...
...sorely felt. He was an optimist, filled with a tremendous and awful faith in the possibilities of man. Yet the flaws of human contrivance did not escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas...