Word: utopian
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While the idea which found expression in a call for an inter collegiate Oratorical Association among the Eastern colleges is without doubt very valuable, and fertile of great results from an oratorical stand point, the enterprise might be termed slightly Utopian. If "J. F. M." wishes the college to "crystallize their ideas upon the subject" would it not be well for him to inaugurate the crystallization? Notwithstanding the fact that "such an institution exists between the colleges of six different western states" it still remains an open question whether "such an institution" is needed in the east "even more than...
...actual operation. But it was reserved for America, of course, to make the first complete experiment in the matter. At the State Industrial University, at Champaign, Illinois, for a number of years, a thoroughly organized and once successful students' government has been in operation. Of late, however, this Utopian scheme has received a decided set-back, and the fate of self-government for students and of this first quasi declaration of independence of theirs hangs trembling in the balance. A special correspondent of the HERALD, at Champaign, writes as follows, speaking, as will be seen, to a certain extent...
...before them, and show themselves in all respects to be "exalted models, both able and willing to prove what it truly is to constitute a state." That from some source men well qualified for this purpose will come is the fond belief of Americans and the hope of every Utopian dreamer. "Blessed indeed will be the alma mater who shall be able to cry out, 'These are my sons!' Sad will be her reproach if she should find them emanate from any inferior source...