Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socially, the mathematicians and humanists mix well. Marston Morse, mathematician and a resident tutor at Eliot House until 1935, compared the collaboration favorably with that at Harvard. "Scientists and classicist mingle more here than we did in Cambridge," he said. "The ideal of the Institute is that scholars meet and teach each other on a plane of equality...
...President Woodrow Wilson, has been an essential part of all humanities and social science upperclass courses ever since. The precept is Princeton's version of Harvard's section meeting, but has proved exceptionally successful because of its small size and the calibre of the men teaching it. The ideal precept is five or six students, although some have recently been as large as eight or ten. This contrasts with the average Harvard section of 15 or 20. The more important aspect, however, is the array of teaching talent made available for precepts. Unlike the Harvard system of using graduate students...
...League yet," Pusey said in an interview with the CRIMSON, "but from my past experience at Lawrence College, I've found that groups of colleges having much in common usually enjoy and profit by playing each other in league competition. We thought our league at Lawrence was ideal," the President continued...
...when an NBC candidate seems to slip from the ideal of a public servant, there is an antedote to misgivings in examining the other candidates. It will take more than an NBC to purify Boston politics completely. But the committee is a start, weakened by the lack of patronage, but worthwhile and well-directed. The NBC again deserves the support of the Boston voters for its slate...
Barzini winds up in a significant self-contradiction: he tells the U.S. to be tough, fearless, self-assured and Europe's leader; at the same time, he wants the U.S. to follow Europe's advice and do things Europe's way. His ideal America would be a kind of super-Europe, the successful, functioning substance of centuries ago, but equipped with all modern conveniences, its diplomats so many Metternichs riding to peace conferences in helicopters, taking its philosophy and manners (as Rome took Greece's) from older and wiser heads, via teletypewriter. That is the sentimental...