Word: idolization
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...Chicago Club will find themselves in a water-tight Sherman compartment; Pennsylvania will find Penrose and Brumbaugh (both Harvard men, by the way) contending for laical honors; some may even reach the headwaters of the Missouri where Borah thunders or the Mississippi valley where Hadley,--the matinee idol of the last convention,--holds his afternoon performances. Here is an opportunity to keep one's ears open and come back charged with Forum material...
...tariff. Hold it in the light and see the little demons curled up in its snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol of American prosperity. The tariff has not created our prosperity but the extraordinary genius of the American people. The area of free trade with in the country has been too great to allow the influences of the tariff to be felt, and it has made little difference what the height...
...that inestimable good is done the teachers by the points which they learn from their wards. The finest thing a social service worker can do is to learn one or two of his boys by heart, to have them as true friends, boys to whom he is an idol, and who take from him the ideals which will stir ambition in their souls...
...generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed...
...importance of the mass of allegories and caricatures, which formed the political education of an ignorant people, who had just acquired the suffrage. He then spoke of the unbounded popularity of Rousseau and of his writings, and the popularity, second only to that of Rousseau, of Benjamin Franklin, the idol of the French people. The misery of the lower classes, while undoubtedly great, has been grossly exaggerated by Carlyle and others; and far from being a cause was only a condition of the Revolution, which was in reality started by the rich people and thinkers of the nation, and then...