Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan, there is nevertheless validity in his fundamental point that colleges, if they are to foster mental development on a high level, must limit their numbers to the few men who are equipped through interest, training, and ability, for really advanced academic work. Attempts to hedge between the democratic ideal of mass education and the ideal of developing intellectual leaders of some calibre have had unsatisfactory results in both directions, as the storm of criticism during the last few years shows. The colleges are squarely faced with the necessity of choosing between accepting large numbers whose interest is not primarily...
Damp or sultry weather may be uncomfortable for audiences at open-air concerts but it is the ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...
...traction magnate has Delaney "framed," how the foes of Labor trump up evidence to send Delaney to jail and keep him there in spite of retrials, rehearings, appeals. In the midst of this great legal struggle, Delaney sits alone, an individual almost forgotten in a confused battle for an ideal. Here, and in the futile closing scene where Delaney sits in his cell planning, always planning for his release, Playwright Golden rises to dramatic heights almost in spite of himself...
...knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum, the hero of many...
...Moton as one of their great leaders, a potent contact-man between the Negro and the White. Last week Dr. Meredith Ashby Jones, white Baptist pastor from St. Louis, whose father was chaplain to General Robert Edward Lee, said: "Moton is the perfect incarnation in his personality of the ideal and dream of this re public, that the day shall come when all races and all castes and all classes rep resented in our country shall indeed have a fair chance to achieve the best in life...