Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disregarding the fact that few dying men have strength or inclination to call for music, playing on the sentiment that the ideal exit would be made to the strains of some great composer, The Etude, music magazine whose appeal is usually more pedagogic than popular, last week published answers to a questionnaire sent out to various U. S. heroes asking what music they would choose to have played if they had only a few hours to live. Other choices...
...talk on "An Ideal Poetry Room" will be given this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Exhibition Room of the Widener Library by I. A. Richards, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and at present visiting lecturer on Contemporary English Literature at Harvard. This talk, the second of a series during the current year on modern poetry, will be open only to undergraduates...
...Experimental College was founded with the purpose of developing "an understanding of the human mind as it creates and fashions the civilization in the midst of which men live." Students studied two civilizations treating them from every point of view in an attempt to realize this difficult ideal. This attempt at universality, although noble in aim, is open to all the dangers of superficiality. Trying to solve the "eternal problems which confront us all" class and administrative restrictions have been broken down and the emphasis placed on the close relations of tutor and tutee...
...other hand, there is not an ideal situation facing the educational world today. The hampering influence of the "four-year loafer" and misfit on his fellows is becoming generally recognized in educational circles. The need for a weeding-out process is essential if the universities and colleges are to be maintained as dispensaries of culture in the best meaning of the word. Herein then, lies the most cogent argument for the examination and here is a need, to eliminate the misfits from colleges, that no other agency has been invented to meet...
...member of the class who has sufficient life insurance. On the other hand, to those members of the class who are intending to insure their lives and who are intending to make a gift to the Harvard Fund the combining of the two into a single transaction becomes an ideal solution. The contributions are made with the minimum of effort on the part of the individual and the fund gains a maximum of return. It is my very real belief that the Council's opposition to the Insurance Plan has been because it has never had the insurance Plan fully...