Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This dream of a Utopia of comparative silence between midnight and the first noise rumbling of the milk wagons at the break of drawn is probably impossible to achieve--but it is a pleasant dream for hose few precious, hard-gleaned moments of sleep...
...Unsuccessful "noble experiment" of the early 19th century (1841?47); a communal Utopia at West Roxbury, Mass, sponsored by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret ("Priestess of Transcendentalism") Fuller and other advanced thinkers...
...that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband becomes a subtle struggle, noble v. peasant. When Hans drowns, she takes up with a dwarf of a man whose only attractions are his title, his philosophy, his offer to take her to some island made for dreaming...
Under the title "Utopia College: A Prospectus" Dean Hibbard of the University of North Carolina pictures in the current number of the Outlook and Independent his conception of what the ideal college should be. First he pays tribute to the experiments in progressive education now being conducted along various lines at Harvard, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, and other institutions, which are to a considerable extent embodied in his own plan. The prime purpose of Utopia College is the avowed one of all modern universities; namely, to stimulate intelligent thinking. In pursuit of this fundamental end, however, Dean Hibbard proposes a radical innovation...
...subsequently retired from the business, which had become a Big Business, bought a farm in Maryland, near Baltimore, and started establishing a "boys' and girls' republic." The "republic" was to have an agricultural college and a school of domestic science. But Mr. Perky died before his Maryland Utopia could be brought into being. Meanwhile Shredded Wheat continued to expand, has now five factories-two in Niagara Falls, one in Canada, one in California, one in England...