Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uttered when a statesman dies, in his case take on some measure of flesh and blood. Although the vision he had of a general peace and a reorganized Europe was by no means unique, circumstances and his oratorical gift gave him a unique position as the spokesman of that ideal. He appeared to the world as the counterpoise, in French politics, to the ingrained chauvinism which has made France the popular ogre of the pacifists. His truest measure is found not in the compromises to which internal policies reduced him, but in his work at Locarno and Geneva...
...that group of weary immortals who guided the world during and after the war, and his best work sprang from cooperation with them. As they dropped away one by one, he was isolated in a world which for the moment at least seems to have drifted far from his ideal of peace and unification. If it ever returns, it will return along paths on which he, for all his occasional deviations, was one of the pathfinders...
Piedmont is not just a curious antique. Professor Phillips has refused to be weaned away from "the land of the hicks" and believes heartily in the college's accomplishment. That Piedmont does not come within gunshot of Dr. Flexner's ideal of a university really makes no difference. Georgia farmers don't ask that their doctor or lawyer be a scholar. Without pretending to reach the intellectual level of a great university, Piedmont gives a sound general education, and one surely richer in human values than many more sophisticated colleges can give...
...Beyond that, there might be no requirements is courses, only a thorough and comprehensive examination--for which a candidate could submit himself whenever in his own estimation he was fully prepared. Such a reduction would eliminate the distraction of compulsory courses in the senior year, and would promote the ideal of self-education: knowledge acquired and mastery attained rather than courses attended. Frederick Thon...
...Houses. The resident of Lowell, Eliot, or Dunster, who has not a private telephone, can be reached only by telegram; he cannot make calls except by using the pay-phones near the Common Rooms. In the older buildings of Kirkland, Winthrop, and Leverett, the situation, though not ideal, is somewhat better. The pay-phone in each entry provides the convenience of limited use to students who cannot afford a private line. Randolph Hall has a still more convenient arrangement: all suites are provided with telephones, and residents are charged five cents for each outside call...