Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea that the U.S. ought to spend its time and money in a space race with Russia-that, to Rickover's mind, is so much hot air. "The most pressing problem" is education...
...that idea, the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief, Roy Richard Rubottom Jr., says "unwieldy and unworkable." Nor did Dulles mention specific solutions, but Washington heard talk of such stabilizing devices as export and import quotas, buffer stocks, revolving funds to buy up surplus commodities, production controls. More ideas seem likely to be a major result of Vice President Nixon's trip through South America, scheduled to start next week...
...athletics are many and diverse. Football supposedly "builds character" by subjecting its communicants to the rigor and toughness of a highly competitive kind of activity. Crew fosters team-work. Baseball teaches alertness. Fencing develops poise....But one thing that often gets lost in the shuffle is the old-fashioned idea of recreation...
...That was in the afterglow of the great German classical education, and the emphasis then was on philology." he explains. "My experience after coming to Fogg Museum, in 1935, was a very good counterpoise to that training. Fogg combined a museum with active art collecting--this was a new idea to me. I had not been accustomed to treating the work of art as an individual piece...
...college whose enrollment was rapidly increasing, and where the introduction of the elective system had removed many of the common ties, the founders of Signet were condemning not the idea of clubs, but rather the effects of club life on a young man. Their philosophy was that academic learning, if it is to be beneficial and not injurious, must be accompanied by moral education, and that this cannot come from the faculty, but must come from one's fellow students. They thought that the "promiscuity" of the clubs would seriously impair the value of this aspect of a Harvard education...