Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...alone fix the standards. But on the other hand it is not possible for any college to fix its requirements without regard whatsoever to the existing curricula of the schools. The colleges must take, not always what they would like, but what the schools are able to give. The ideal arrangement, therefore, is to place the administration of the entrance requirements in the hands of someone who will be equally sympathetic with both aspects of the problem, who knows the school situation from long experience but who will also keep in mind the fact that no college can lower...
There is a very distinct tide in the affairs of Yale and Harvard men at the New London Regatta on June 25th. The usual dreary wait at the start will this year be complicated by uncertainly as to whether the upstream or downstream course will be rowed. Ideal weather conditions will permit the race to start on time (5 o'clock) over the upstream course, Rough water will necessitate a postponement until 7, owing to the turn of the tide at about 6, and also a reversal of the course. The confusion of time necessitated by daylight saving adds...
...position now. To extend this policy to other departments in the same way that it has been applied in the Department of Economics would make Harvard a leader and an authority in every branch of learning, a center where those who wish scientific application of knowledge may appeal. This ideal is still far out of reach, but the Endowment Fund will help in its attainment. The fulfilment of it will add to the greatness of Harvard in two ways: it will make her program of education even more respected, and it will enable her sons, more effectively trained, to play...
...method of exaggerating the importance of small minorities this system is quite ideal. The newspapers announce that somebody or other has "swept" a given State, but, when we get the facts, it is found that the "sweeping" consisted in polling somewhere between four and twenty percent of the party vote. It is probable that in all the recent primaries so widely advertised throughout the land there were not so many votes cast for all the contestants as will be cast for President alone in the City of New York next November...
Word on a new Boston skating arena, where ice hockey, indoor track games, boxing matches and similar sport events may be staged, has been begun on St. Botolph street on the site of the old Boston Arena. The new building will be a concrete structure providing an ideal indoor skating surface of 220x90 feet, and with seating capacity of approximately 5000 spectators. These seats will be arranged so as to provide a particularly fine view of the games from all parts of the house, and include boxes around the oval. In addition there will be a standing capacity...