Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee recently organized to study the College's admissions procedure will attempt to determine the "ideal" composition of future freshman classes, chairman Franklin L. Ford, associate professor of History, said yesterday...
Even if an "ideal" composition of the freshman class is decided on, Ford pointed out, a number of "hard realities over which we have no control" might prevent the execution of such plans...
...each student," the Radcliffe Freshman Register claims. During a freshman's first week at the College, she is presented with this key. Such is her introduction to the social aspect of the honor system, which has guided the behavior of Radcliffe students for 50 years. Described as "an ideal toward which the College is striving," the honor system applies to academic as well as social behavior...
...also upon her willingness to share in creating that public opinion necessary for its success. All Radcliffe students are expected to assume full responsibility for adult behavior." In effect, the honor system may be divided into a spirit of honor and a system of permissions. The spirit is an ideal of conduct which has characterized the College for many years, producing a special sort of maturity in the Radcliffe student and preparing her to live under the present system of a few reasonable, concise rules, always flexible to fit the individual situation...
...basic cause of this position is the characteristic Eastern antipathy toward enthusiasm. The current Ivy ideal is the casual man who pursues a line of conduct corresponding to a preconceived code, directed by an unalterable mental outlook in which spontaneous emotions play a miniscule role. If enthusiasm is allowed to creep in, it is carefully controlled and channelled toward "safe" objects such as Humphrey Bogart or the Kingston Trio; it is never casual to display enthusiasm or emotion toward anything more serious than these...