Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cultivate the social as well as the scholarly interests of the members has been the aim of the international organization everywhere. At different places this ideal is sought in different ways; at Cornell, for instance, a residence building has been thought necessary. In this University more modest methods have sufficed. It is still too soon for the full effects of the cosmopolitan movement to be evident; it is not too much to say, however, that it will promote the interchange of students between countries and in some measure aid the cause of international harmony...
...solution is that the rich man should be taxed more in proportion to his income. In this way the income tax would force the people to be perfectly honest. France's income would be increased and the national debt would be diminished. An income tax more nearly approaches ideal justice than any other tax France can impose...
...highest ideal to which man can attain is the production of happiness. But by nature man is not fitted for this work for four reasons; he is more sensitive to pain than to happiness, he is highly susceptible to disease, his requirements for maintenance of life are too great to obtain the highest degree of efficiency and he produces in order that he may produce more, rather than that he may produce more, rather than that he may enjoy what he has already produced. Man's egotism is opposed by his will and turned into altruism, and his intelligence, which...
...class election should be determined on merit alone. It is an ideal not often attained, but it is none the less an ideal to be sought after: to cast aside personal likes and dislikes, to vote for the men who most deserve office and who are best fitted for carrying out the obligations of office, and to abide by the results without complaint...
...lecture last night on "The Civic Functions of the Theatre," Mr. Percy MacKaye '97 maintained that a civic ideal for the theatre existed, but that it had at present no important influence on account of the lack of the proper means to realize it. This means is endowment, without which no public institution can exist...