Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect they have produced justifies special emphasis. The whole-hearted support which he enjoys in India is impressive in itself, but the reception which he, although its avowed enemy, received as a visitor to England, seems like an even more remarkable instance of the triumph of a moral ideal...
Obviously the final cure of this evil depends on a change in the spirit of contemporary life in general. It is futile to talk of fostering intellectual and scholarly ideals unless the community which shapes both the education and the student is upholding a similar ideal. Colleges in general will continue to reflect the environment in which they exist...
...Harvard Engineering School and the Albert Russel Erskine Traffic Research Bureau, by three students, H. F. Hammond, L. E. McClintock, and D. G. Mickie. After visiting 15 cities, travelling on Sheldon Fellowships, they drew up a report of the information gathered with a view to formulating an ideal city planning scheme...
...reason," said Professor Halvdan Koht at the Nobel Institute in Oslo last week, "why peace prizes so often have gone to America. ... It is true that the United States sometimes has pursued an imperialistic policy, a natural consequence of industrial capitalism, but they have also fostered the most vigorous idealism in the world. The American people have an instinctive faith in the perfectibility of man. An ideal is to an American not a distant mirage but a practical reality which it is one's duty to put into life...
...ideal system would be to establish one such refrectory in every House. They must of course be self-sustaining but it is probable that each House could support its own. It this were impossible they could be organized jointly by several Houses or there could be one central until conveniently located. The physical difficulties to putting any such scheme into effect can be easily resolved, either by the use of the dining rooms or by the make-shift use of some empty room in the cellar...