Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Progressive educators in recent years have established numerous "experimental" schools, very few of them conspicuously successful. If, however, President Hutchins has any real contribution to make to the advancement of education, the University of Chicago, with its high scholastic standard and efficient faculty, is an ideal "guinea...
...sticks of progress." The printed word, and often the printed word alone, redeems civilizations from an unknown past. It seems especially significant that this standard of values should emerge from the nation's capitol where progress is generally judged by criteria vaguely concerned with the tariff and a Mexican ideal of procrastination. Yet, it is quite fitting that just as Washington is the nerve center of national legislation it should also be the clearing house for national scholarship. The new ramifications of the Congressional Library fulfill this function and provide an opportunity which cannot be lightly overlooked for graduate workers...
...years residence of the undergraduate in Cambridge before obtaining a diploma. In so controlling admission to all its branches, the University aims at acquiring men of ability, men capable of grasping the opportunity that a large institution offers. The newly established Business School has taken another step towards this ideal...
...face, bland of smile, his dark eyes have a Rudy Vallee droop. In law, then business, till he was 25, he took up journalism in 1914. Say his detractors: he is still at it. Says he: "I detest the historical novel. It perverts both history and fiction. My ideal is a portrait of unimpeachable documentary veracity, which at the same time is suggestive of a story." Author Ludwig has been married 27 years. Other books: Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, Goethe, Diana (a novel, TIME...
...proposing that we substitute the inspiring power of the vision of an ideal humanity for fear of hell and hope of heaven as a driving power in the life of men; and that God within--the unifying element which drives men to unity in a brotherly world--replace a medieval, imperial deity who makes irrational demands on his human subjects and savagely punishes or extravagantly rewards those who anger or please him; who looks upon this world and its happiness as immaterial or evil, centering all interest on a supposed life after death...