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...summary, Hoover's plan or ideal is the practicability of the lowering of taxes through the reduction of waste, the remainder to be borne by the classes most able to pay, but no class is to be so heavily burdened that its initiative or ambition is killed. R. J. BARNS...
...ideal we advocate a happy mean--say a quarter limit and twenty percent. Ideals were the possession of another less mysterious generation. Our free and Puritanical ancestors with their toddy...
...than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority of college students are not students at all; they are guests...
Silver Bay is situated 26 miles from the head of the lake, just above the narrows, and is one of the most beautiful spots in the lake. The location and equipment of the conference site are ideal and the fine athletic fields offer opportunities for tennis and baseball. Fishing, aquatic sports, and mountain climbing will also play an important part of the recreative life of the Conference...
...sentimental romanticism or the equally sentimental naturalism. The easy road of laudatory self-indulgence is no longer to be justified by an appeal to nature as the final law. Reason is again to assert its kingship in the domain of life; man is to turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make him socially and righteously efficient." To the aid of a "positive and ethical humanism" is to be brought a "positive and critical religion," for "humanism cannot get along without religion, because, as Burke pointed...