Word: utopianizing
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...compulsory attendance at classes?" Among thoughtless students and hasty enthusiasts, as well as among those sincerely interested in college problems, that query has grown daily more frequent. The prospect of a college without monitors seems now like a utopian vision; yet other institutions have been known to survive without them, and the idea of making attendance voluntary has not only been considered here already, but has been put to an actual test at least once during the last half century...
...must be admitted that it has been receiving a great deal--from the outside. Suggestions have been made by many writers and educators, men who have studied and compared the methods used in different colleges, and commented on them. All that is needed now is that someone suggest a "utopian" university which all might copy; or that, as in the University of Bologna in the Middle Ages, the students should "run" their professors, and if unsatisfactory "run" them out of town...
...officers in the Reserves and thus eligible for West Point's teaching staff, and receiving men from the military faculty, or by some other feasible plan, Harvard might benefit to no small degree from West Point's educational methods-something it never can do as long as the Utopian democracy idea persists...
...program thus presented is hardly so idealistic in its aims that the other nations will be likely to withdraw from the Conference. Those who have not taken seriously the constant hints from the White House that the Conference will not result in the realization of any Utopian dreams, will be rather rudely forced to admit that there is no talk of reduction and a little of limitation in these proposals...
...third calls for more attention. The theory that peace is preserved by having each nation try to be stronger than every other or all others was abandoned as Utopian quite early in human history, and replaced by that of the Balance of Bower. This second system having failed egregiously in 1914, it is proposed to have nations maintain minimum armies and co-operate to resist aggression. A large body of American opinion however feels, as does the Editor of the CRIMSON, that, while the rest of the world should be encouraged to adopt the third system, America should revert...