Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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These concrete instances may be indicative of the fact that Harvard as a whole has begun to look on football purely as a game. It is, perhaps, an extension to the spectator of the new tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure...
...before any of these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...
...decades later was to leave Europe in the throes of revolution. Disraeli in 1878 said he had won "Peace with honor" for England, and in 40 years she was embroiled in a conflict that struck at the respectability of the world. But out of that conflict there grew an ideal which may become the most constructive plan ever decided upon by a peace conference. Heretofore the tools of peace have been in the hands of individual statesmen: they have now been given to intelligent citizens. In 1919 Woodrow Wilson established a League of Nations whose purpose was to solve international...
...commons as well as recitation buildings for the students of business administration, and the group of buildings on Longwood avenue, known as Vanderbilt Hall, form a separate and self sufficient unit for the Harvard Medical School. Lodging and eating facilities for the law students, however, are in no such ideal state. Even the students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with Perkins and Conant to live in are better off than many in the Law School...
...relation to other lights and may be simultaneous or progressive. Simultaneous lights are used in New York, but are technically unsound because they result in a high moving speed and a slow overall rate. The progressive lights as they are used on Washington Street in Boston are theoretically ideal and permit a quick and continuous flow of traffic...