Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of the significant and often delicate issues involved in the atomic field the non-political ideal is probably impossible to realize completely. Yet in the last year especially, the commission seems to have ignored this goal, plunging into polities with unmatched fervor. as a result of the controversies in which the agency has been engaged, Commissioners have become known by the polities they keep. Businessmen or scientists on the commission are popularly regarded as high-level lobbyists, and expected to uphold predetermined viewpoints on almost every issue...
Conditions for the experiment are ideal at present, Hill observed, because the nation's public school teaching staffs are undermanned. "This is a perfect time to try this idea out. Secondary schools will have no difficulty in absorbing the influx," he said...
...House-assignment efforts have aimed at but fallen short of the ideal once voiced by President Lowell:" . . . what we need is a group of colleges each of which will be national and democratic a microcosm of the whole university." This statement and those by succeeding administrators have echoed the common desire to avoid the provincialism that often stems from residence with people of similar backgrounds and interests...
...Such an ideal has caused Housemasters, deans, and tutors yearly to deny or minimize the actual variations in the Houses. But their warnings have largely gone unheeded, for the real differences are patent and widely discussed. While 36 percent of the whole College is on the Dean's List, one of the Houses has 43 percent of its members on the list, while another has only 29 percent. The lower ranking House finds it almost impossible to acquire tutors, who are discouraged by the prospect of ministering to weak academic groups. The familiar story of the tutor in one House...
Arbitrary as such a plan might appear, it remains the best method for attaining a system of Houses individually balanced but still distinctive. Housemasters should quickly stop attempts to reach President Lowell's ideal with halfway measures and drop the preferential system of Houses assignment...