Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
...Under ideal conditions the four crews of the A squad staged their first real race of the season over the one and three quarters mile course in the basin late yesterday afternoon. Stroked by J. H. Hall '27, crew C came out in front by a margin of two lengths over crew B, stroked by C. McK. Norton '29. Crews D and A finished in third and fourth places...
...student council would be ideal which was small enough to be a working unit, yet large enough and so selected as not to include merely the most popular undergraduates but a good proportion of the most capable--the two are not always combined. Such a body is, of course, as impossible as Plato's Republic ruled by philosopher kings. And if it should exist by some miracle, there would still have to be discovered a really vital use for it. But the human student craves a voice in his micropolity, and the Williams experiment, after all, gives him as effective...
...memorial represents a dead Crusader, such as those who went from Cambridge, England, in the twelfth Century and gave their lives for an ideal, lying upon a cross with his head pillowed in a woman's lap. According to the traditional position of the feet of the Crusader he was one of those who never reached Jerusalem, those who did so being traditionally represented with their feet crossed. The woman may typify Alma Mater as well as those women who gave their best to a great cause and made their lonely grief their glory. The two figures symbolize mutual sacrifice...
...intoxication, stronger than drink, of speaking from a pulpit; has learned, among other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...