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...what it will with the cumbrous formulae of entrance requirements, lectures, and schedules of courses no college administrative office can maintain a spirit of liberalism in the face of undergraduate bias, snobbery, or provincialism. Only by the origination and perpetuation of a tradition of student liberalism will the ideal college be translated into an actuality. Nor is it an answer that the undergraduate body can only reflect the spirit of the times. Since the middle ages Cambridge and Oxford have cherished a tradition of liberalism which has persisted despite eras of national bigotry and prejudice. Reform, like charity, begins...
Will this be sacrificing ideals and honor? Ideals are made for man and if an old-fashioned ideal threatens to destroy man, it is no longer an ideal. The ideal is the path which will bring the most good to mankind...
...ideal way to distribute seats for a college football game would be by invitation." Major F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the Athletic Association told a CRIMSON reporter. "In this way any trace of commercialism that might taint this sport and the disagreeable element of the crowds would be done away with...
...ideal however, is unattainable for the Athletic Association must have money to carry on its work, and so admission to games must be charged." The reporter suggested making the association independent by an endowment. "Nearly $10,000,000 would be needed for such a fund," said Major Moore. "With the numerous other demands for endowment, especially for college professors, the possibility of ever getting one is out of the question...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...