Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical schools the country over look forward joyfully to the day when Negro schools will be able to offer a medical education which will be sufficiently attractive to Negroes graduating from white universities. If this question is put: "How may this Utopia be achieved?", the inevitable answer is that the best white medical schools must educate the better prepared Negroes to undertake the responsibility of raising the standards of Negro medical schools. Harvard has not admitted a Negro since 1927; as a leader in liberal education, it sets a bad example...
...University of Chicago, under the leadership of its original-minded President Butchins, set up last fall a virtual educational Utopia for its entering class. Eager students and interested instructors were to cooperate in an earnest and, on the part of the former, practically independent quest for knowledge. No examinations, no grades were to hamper the work until, at length, the individual student felt himself ready to take a series of comprehensive examinations which would graduate him to the senior section of the university. What is to happen then is still a little vague since no one has as yet taken...
...Hitler policy is designed for the purpose of catching votes without regard to consistency. It promise a social and economic utopia for the masses, the class which ultimately controls the government through the ballot. Nordicus explains a cardinal Hitler principle when he says. "For every intelligent head there are ten stupid ones, whose votes, banded together, suffice to attain the desired end. Intelligent reasoning, according to Hitler, has no place among the modern masses...
...Model T Utopia...
Pianist Maier's programs were as perfectly arranged for children as the children's Utopia sung about in the first U. S. performance of German Paul Hindemith's Let's Build a City. There was a program of musical animals (Saint-Saëns' "Cuckoo," John Alden Carpenter's "Krazy Kat"), one of dances. There were picture-book slides to illustrate Debussy's Toy Chest and the country where prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. Pianist Maier's assistants were all children, but none had prodigious talent. Little East Side children from...