Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth, unified flow of his music as it passes rapidly from mood to mood, from the mighty, dramatic ascent of the Credo to the sweet simplicity of the Sanctus. This composition is essentially one of strongly contrasting moments, and Dr. Koussevitzky's very vigorous interpretation seems to us ideal, without any undue exaggeration of the powerful passages. After all, this work, deeply religious as it is, certainly was never designed to be sung in an ordinary church atmosphere...
Indeed the policy is so ideal in concept that it could stand more careful enforcement. Every year fifteen hundred men qualify scholastically for admission, and approximately a thousand are taken in. The grave responsibility attached to denying five hundred men a Harvard education appears at times to be taken too lightly, and with insufficient basis for discrimination...
...long felt and grievous want, for it will furnish a place where our students can make the best use of every volume helpful to their education; a home for the treasures of learning and literature that have accumulated here in the course of generations, making those treasures accessible under ideal conditions to scholars and investigators and book lovers in future days. Thus our most crying need is the one that has been most generously...
...this subject in scholarship applications. No less than four questions on the National Scholarship applications are devoted to this theme, and also on the regular scholarship applications, the student's outside program is one of the most carefully scrutinized questions. Activities plus high grades have proven to be the ideal scholarship combination. But probably most important of all is the immeasurable social benefit to be derived from working as a member of some team or organization. These social contacts, as Dr. Bock so aptly points out, "help to fit men to live in the world...
...choice is between the concentration camp and the battlefield," Laski declared, advocating a militant socialist policy, "and the time has come for Ideal Right to take Might unto itself...