Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minimum salary is $1,400, annual increase of $100, maximum $2,000. For those who have had three years, maximum $2,500. For four years, $3,250. For those who have taken a post-graduate degree, maximum $3,500. Four years post high school training is regarded as the ideal minimum for all teachers. In Cincinnati, 38% of the elementary teachers are college graduates...
Only occasionally does there come a show that is original and yet naturally attractive, that has novelty but not so much of it as to jar. "Rang Tang" at the Tremont Theatre is as close an approximation to such an ideal as has been seen in Boston for a long time...
...shade of opinion. In this the Chicago Public Library is like all other libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American ideal of a free press. Any other course would lead to an arbitrary censorship as detrimental to American political liberty as to American academic thought...
...stamp them alike; and this helps also to explain, perhaps, why all attempts to convey the sense of glamor in stories with a Harvard background, as Fitzgerald has used the background of his university, have failed completely; why Harvard, to the average mind; never suggests the nebulous, romantic ideal of college life...
...Eaton describes the tutorial and lecture systems as mutually interdependent, and would deplore the weakening of either. The pure lecture program gives the student only one form of expression for his ideas,--the written paper. The tutor cannot cover all the detail incidental to a full college course. The ideal solution is a combination of the two in which both written and verbal discussion of his field are available to the student...