Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they may actually convey sufficient knowledge of a particular field to be of cultural value long after graduation. A Bachelor of Arts degree has long signified in its possessor at least a smattering of supposedly broadening subjects. Regardless of what one may think of this viewpoint, it represents an ideal which is not lightly to be tossed overboard...
...almost universal adulation Erasmus' life is in essence tragic. His unwillingness to partake of struggle, his profound hatred of violence prevented him from taking sides when all of Europe was madly partisan. Both parties wanted his support but he could not give himself up to partisanship, for his ideal was utterly sixteenth century humanistic--all of mankind was to be united in the common aim of betterment through knowledge, reason, and a belief in man's ability to progress. No longer could a retiring scholar take the lead; the stage was set for violent partisan action. Luther took the lead...
...will be the appearance of Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Literature, and Master of Eliot House, who starred in the last performance. Professor Merriman's part has not yet been selected, but there is a possibility of his playing Falstaff. Though he has not the ideal figure for this part, it is believed that his stellar acting will more than compensate for this...
...order of St. Francis of Assisi, he has renounced his connection with the Church, and rejected the modern world as totally un-Christian. He earns his living by farming and carpentering. His services, labor and speaking, he gives free of charge, asking only subsistence while seeking to live the ideal Christian life as he sees it. His manner of life will be the topic of his address...
...furthering their own personal ambition and greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics" in which all feel competent to participate...