Word: ideale
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...follow the first system ; and it must be admitted that the liberal innovators who have reached out toward the freer method have often been sadly disappointed in the practical results. Their students did not accept the responsibility. But perhaps their failure came because they threw themselves upon an ideal method, not modified to conform to actual conditions. The truth is that the American College student is both boy and man; he comes in, a boy, with very little sense of responsibility, and yet he is often qualified to vote long before he takes his degree. The college, receiving...
...ideal statue portrait of John Harvard, lately modeled by Mr. French, of Concord, shows him in the gown and flat cap of an English university undergraduates...
There seems to be no doubt but that the athletic committee of the faculty in pursuit of an ideal state of athletics will forbid the nine to hire a professional trainer for next year. We are very sorry for this. The reasons for pursuing this action in spite of the strong opposition of men whose minds are not swayed by college feeling and who are known for their sound judgment, do not seem to us clear or considerate of the best interests of the university. The committee state that they see no reason to change their opinions of last year...
...athletics ever had been nearer perfection than at the present day the views of the committee would receive the support of every right-minded man and would be welcomed. But athletics never have been ideal and never will be, and for a committee of the faculty of a university, as censors, to butt against a vast majority can do but little good...
...trust the committee will reconsider their action of last year, taking the opinions of prominent players, and that they will not cling to their hope of making athletics ideal by novel and unheard of rules which can only result in ill-feeling and, what is worse than having no rules at all, covert violation of such existing rules...