Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politically conservative about the new Student Council Constitution have faded as the recent Council elections become history without unpleasant incident. Encouraging evidences of students interest, the spirited support of candidates and the generally heavy voting, serve to vindicate the new Constitution as a concrete advance towards the democratic ideal...
...attempt to impose unnatural bonds upon normal political activity in Council elections would deny the ideal of fullest possible participation. Cliques and bloes which thrive on low vote turnouts could more readily victimize the Councils. The use of the preferential ballot has been beneficial in preventing minority-backed candidates from finishing first. The present election procedure is by no means perfect in this respect, but it does mark departure from the antiquated idea that all political division is an evil...
...internal situation in the Soviet Union is something else again. Russia is a dictatorship which no democrat can condone and no socialist forgive, and the fact that the autocracy is exercised in the name of a higher ideal neither minimizes its medieval harshness nor justifies its Byzantine intolerance. It is a tragedy that, in the name of socialism, a self-chosen elite should deprive men of their right to disagree, their right to speak freely, their right to think independently -rights without which there can be neither popular culture nor human dignity...
...ground, and a large Texaco gasoline sign stares down on it with almost sacrilegious familiarity, but this small plot has outlived many such indignities in its time. In 1700 the caretaker was allowed to pasture his sheep here and in more recent years, on Saturday mornings, it made an ideal wild west setting for dramatic gun play after the horse opera at the U.T. During the administration of Roosevelt II, however, measures were taken to protect it. Thirty-five thousand dollars were spent on repairs and it was put back under the care of the municipal government. An advisory committee...
...changing modern values, a new lead in thinking was demanded; he advanced a belief that laws are above men but that they must serve men and reflect the ethics under which men live in a moment of history. Thirty years ago he realized our path must lie in an ideal of cooperation rather than one solely of competitive self-assertion...