Word: utopian
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...French Plan, expounded by leonine War Minister Maitre Joseph Paul-Boncour (TIME, Nov. 14), promised to Germans a form of "arms equality" which the German Press ridiculed last week as "Utopian," "Platonic" and "a very clever scheme to preserve" French supremacy...
...Such a Utopian reform, of course, lies in the very distant future, but the great merit of the Institute is that it has no illusions. Rather than let the whole affair slide, its graduates are ready to attack immediate penal problems that can be mended without any sweeping changes. Furthermore, it augurs well for future success that the Institute does not act on the basis of sentimental humanitarianism, but rather from a scientific interest in social welfare. There are and will be many obstacles in its road, including the ponderous weight of a legal mechanism that is very difficult...
...elementary knowledge," may give an ability to read inscriptions, tags, and bon mots, but it can certainly not give the student a literary appreciation of it. The supposition that after a student has an elementary knowledge, he will continue the study of it by himself has proved to be utopian. A single year spent in learning grammar and syntax thus has frequently had no fruits beyond conformity with University Hall regulations...
...offer as a panacea an exodus into the corn fields and rolling prairie land is obviously Utopian and quite impossible under the conditions of the present civilization. But it is not too much to expect, and it is almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack...
This somewhat Utopian ideal could, of course, never be fully consummated in the nature of things. A minority of lecturers would continue to be talking text-books. A minority of students would take advantage of the new system to cut, just as they take advantage of the present system to avoid supplementary reading and depend solely on the disconnected facts they glean from lectures. In both cases, however, they would suffer the same penalty as at present --the former by lecturing to empty seats, the latter by premature ejection from the realms of higher education. The true understanding...