Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Additionally, last year's controversy over the criteria for selecting a new athletic director (a controversy which pitted the interests of varsity athletes against the broader desires of the Harvard athletic community), provided an ironic contrast to the Harvard ideal of "athletics...
Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, stated in an article in yesterday's New York Times that the recent emphasis on ethnic group solidarity obscures the ideal of constitutional equality and should be replaced by individual assimilation into the "common human heritage...
...industry-were the natural culmination of a revolution in electronics that began in 1948 with Bell Telephone Laboratories' announcement of the transistor. Small, extremely reliable, and capable of operating with only a fraction of the electricity needed by the vacuum tube, the "solid-state" device proved ideal for making not only inexpensive portable radios and tape recorders but computers as well. Indeed, without the transistor, the computer might never have advanced much beyond the bulky and fickle ENIAC, which was burdened with thousands of large vacuum tubes that consumed great amounts of power, generated tremendous quantities of heat...
Radicals have often criticized the philosophy behind the liberal arts ideal. It is hard to persuade students who want revolutionary change in American society that they should first immerse themselves in the cultural life of a society they believe is fundamentally corrupt. Radicals have charged that political ideas always underlay the concept of a liberal arts education. The conflict between liberal education and radical education is a question that has to be resolved before discussions of requirements can take place...
...crucial question, then, is whether the idea of liberal arts has the power to transform the educational system, or whether the Core proposal is just an anachronistic attempt to resurrect a dead ideal. Proponents of the Core are fighting the educational trends of the last 30 years. It seems that the undertaking will be enormous, and the Core proposal represents only a small step along the way to a liberal education...