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Masters say crowding single rooms reducespersonal privacy, and others say having Houseresidents living in crowded facilities andoverflow buildings detracts from the ideal of theHouse system...
Pfister says the set-up of having Kirklandresidents living in DeWolfe was less than ideal...
...Metzger's impressive professional backgroundand his knowledge of the Radcliffe and Harvardcommunities make him an ideal candidate for thisimportant position," she said...
...oldest expositions of a philosophy akin to our modern glorification of love can be found in Plato's Symposium. We might be surprised to find the ideal associated exclusively with homosexual relationship. Most of the men who participated in these relationships were married and had children (or would later marry and have children), yet they regarded their marital life as completely removed from any romantic ideals and geared exclusively towards reproduction. In the entire Symposium, the only mention of heterosexual intercourse is in the context of adultery. The adulterous man was understood to be acting out of love...
...hold the ideal of romantic love in low esteem. It greatly values physical beauty, which is transient and vacuous and often serves to justify sexual behavior that would otherwise be recognized as unacceptable. It breeds vindictive jealousy at least as often as it does altruism, and it hypocritically presents as selfless what is immensely egotistic. C.S. Lewis writes in the preface to The Screwtape Letters: "In human life we have seen the passion to dominate, almost to digest, one's fellow; to make his whole intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one's own--to hate...