Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention buildup, his bold convention telegram and his overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon's first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable fact of Recovery, was proceeding with a "non-political" campaign which, as Lacy Haynes...
...young Bergius conceived the idea of making motor fuel from coal by hydrogenation under high heat and heavy pressure. Over the following two decades he and other chemists in Germany, Britain and Canada converted the idea into an industrial fact. Finely powdered coal is made into a paste by mixing with tar or a tar derivative, the mixture fed into a heavy steel cylinder. At 840° F, hydrogen gas is brought in under 3,700 Ib. per sq. in. pressure. The hydrogen combines with the carbon or carbon compounds in the coal...
Such, it seems to me, was the properly balanced plan of a university in a time when universities were flourishing; such, it seems to me, must be the idea of a university if institutions of higher learning are to fulfill their proper function in the times that are to come. But there have been periods of sickness, even of decay, in the history of almost every academic foundation. If one of the four vital streams I have mentioned either fails or swells to a torrent, thus destroying the proper balance of nourishment, then the true university tradition may perish...
...consider, first, the situation, created when the proper balance is upset by disproportionate concern with general education. In this case the stream of learning and research inevitably dries up; indeed, some have contended that it should. Newman defined his idea of a university as "a place of teaching universal knowledge, for the diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement." In his famous essay be recommended "a division of intellectual labour between learned academies and universities." (In twentieth century terminology we should substitute the words "research institute" for "academy".) He believed that "to discover and to teach...
...colleges. But there was a sad example of the over-bright freshman, who, with too much time on his hands, fell in with gamblers and 'became a dissipated sot', along with a classmate who turned out an 'expert gamester.' One of an old Bay Colony family 'never had an idea in his life, except to grease his hair and clean his buckles.' A descendant of a long line of ministers 'was spoilt by a residence in Virginia, where he became dissipated'; two others became drunkards without faring so far. One committed suicide shortly after graduation, two went insane, a fourth...