Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Bender's annual report on the state of the College contains a large section on the House problem. This emphasis is well placed, for the last few years have proved, as Dean Bender points out, that "the Houses are still far from realizing the ideal which Mr. Lowell and Mr. Harkness had in mind when the House system was established." With the post-war decrease in tutorial, the Houses should provide the force to counteract "mass education and student anonymity...
What is need now is less talk about the difficulty of working with a large House and more actual work in molding Houses with their present numbers to conform with the ideal of the House system. Too many House Masters are using the size argument as an excuse for inactivity. Much can be done to make the Houses a basis for social life, a mechanism for informal contact with the faculty, and a means of combatting student anonymity...
...continuing war between science and religion, the issue last week was sex. From Science's corner, Anthropologist George Peter Murdock of Yale threw out the challenge. Said he: "There is . . . nothing in man's social experience to indicate that the ideal of premarital chastity has any scientific value...
...Short of Ideal. Scientist Murdock's challenge got a quick answer. The Rev. William J. Gibbons, of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, rose to the defense of premarital chastity. "Man," said Jesuit Gibbons, "is a moral being . . . Man's reason, properly used, can still tell him what ought to be, even if his concrete behavior falls short of the ideal . . . Sex, like any other tendency in man, must be regulated by reason. Man, not being governed by the detailed instincts of lesser animals, would find his tendencies running wild were he not to regulate them by reason...
...America unless you transplant the meaning those sex habits have there ... It may well be that in a society like ours-where we are more insistent than are other cultures that sex have in it mutual affection, a sense of belonging and a sharing of on-going purpose-the ideal of premarital chastity has more significance than it has in a society where the orgasm is elevated to the rank of supreme good...