Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany alone last year, Kurgäste, or cure-guests, cast $375 million on the health-giving waters, a 250% increase since 1955. "The great, the rich and the fat still come," says an official of the West German spa association. "But now that our social structure is more egalitarian, the Kur is for everyone...
...world's best until the 1930s. and an American who aspired to greatness in surgery went to Europe for training. The U.S. remained a medical outpost. Its own great man was Johns Hopkins University's William S. Halsted (1852-1922), who nurtured a frontiersman's egalitarian ideas: residents in surgery (M.D.s who have finished their internship and are in specialist training) should be encouraged to use both their hands and their heads. The most brilliant product of Halsted's revolutionary residency system was the great brain surgeon...
Kerr reiterated a concern voiced last night that overly-aggressive egalitarian impulses might channel federal funds away from the large universities that have been getting most of it. "How may the contributions of the elite be made clear to the egalitarians; how may an aristocracy of intellect justify itself to a democracy of the common man?" he asked...
...happy hybrid of U.S. higher education is Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.-an Ivy League school with a Big Ten flavor. Part of it is private and impeccably elite; part of it is public and happily egalitarian. In riding such disparate horses, President Deane W. Malott, 64, has spent eleven years "trying to reduce chaos to disorder." Now he is retiring in favor of James A. Perkins, vice president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation of New York. At 51, Perkins took the job partly because "I was ready for a large, tough proposition." He got it. Says Cornell...
Responding to the increasing population and increasing demand for college education with extravagant growth is a characteristic result of the egalitarian educational philosophy of the Illinois State Legislature, which has virtually complete financial control over the University. The right of every citizen to a free elementary and secondary education has long been recognized, and this principle has been extended to the conclusion that a college education also is a tax-bought commodity which is collectable on demand. Until very recently, the only requirement for admission to the University of Illinois was graduation from an accredited high school in the state...