Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Education was born from the belief that every thinking individual should be familiar with a certain basic core of Western intellectual tradition, and that modern specialized education failed to present this heritage. Proponents say that its scope is so broad that no secondary school curriculum could possibly cover the same areas. But it is senseless for a student to spend a whole year re-hashing material he has already assimilated. G.E.'s value lies in its unifying approach to knowledge, not in the specific subjects studied. The advanced G. E. courses and many offered in the various departments follow...
...agreement set forth the preservation of the amateur in college sports as its primary objective. The pact bases this aim on the belief that players and coaches should be "permitted to enjoy the game as participants in a form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles...
...unlettered (six weeks of schooling) to fake the runic inscription, and he had no books to help him. Skeptical scholars have pointed to many oddities in the stone's language, but this pale, negative tactic has not laid the ghosts of the Minnesota Vikings. Both popular and learned belief in it is still strong. Professor Wahlgren felt that positive action was needed...
Over and over, he stressed democratic harmony rather than unbending orthodoxy: "Get together. Be friends. Advance toward one goal-freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of action...
...strike vote proposal reflects the belief that workers would often vote against their union leaders if they had the chance. But while such a regulation was in effect for essential industries during the war. the Government conducted 2,285 strike polls in such companies as Goodyear, General Motors and Wright Aeronautical, found that in most (85%) employees voted to strike. Instead of making for quicker settlement, the polls served (in workers' eyes) as a sort of Government approval, tended to solidify the opposing battle lines...