Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National University. Addressing the N. E. A. informally, President Coolidge indicated as his ideal of a "national university" the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, founded in Washington two years ago by Philanthropist Robert S. Brookings of St. Louis. The 35 students now at this institution studying for Ph.D.'s and proficiency in statecraft, were admitted as having possessed the following qualifications: disinterested attitude, critical acumen, sense of reality, practical ability, knowledge of literature, writing talent, eloquence. George Eastman, Rochester camera maker, has contributed 20 or more fellowships...
...Henry's benefaction, it probably runs into several millions of dollars, was given to the world by him from the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan. The significance of the gift lies in the fact that Christian unity has hitherto been one of the most orated and one of the least supported ideals in Christendom. Great churchmen like Bishop Brent, Cardinal Mercier, John R. Mott, have given much of their lives to it, but few philanthropists* have given their fortunes to it. Now there is money, as well as voices, to propagate the ideal...
From the beginning, the floor of the Debating Union has been open to all members of the University. And in the arguing of each question, the preliminary set speeches have always been short to conform with their function of merely directing subsequent discussion. The Oxford ideal of a free and dignified student forum to develop speakers of high calibre while providing also an extra curricular activity of some charm and glamour seems to have been consistently sought...
...with that of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants, has been directed toward the encouragement of internationalism in learning. The exchange of students between countries will affect not only their political relations, but to a great extent their intellectual development. The world of learning has moved far from the medieval ideal; already our universities have become more national in character and appeal. That this situation has been radically changed since the war, and that it is every day being changed, cannot be doubted in face of the visiting professors and students who have sought and carried learning across political boundaries. However...
...population shifts westward, the state university will become an increasingly important medium of instruction. In order to progress toward the educational ideal, outside pressure must not be a factor in faculty policy. Only if it is itself free from control can a university foster that essential of education, intellectual independence...