Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce Commission became vacant. To fill it the President turned to the South. Dozens of southern names were presented to him, names of able railroaders, "good traffic men." But none of them was what the President wanted. Finally, it was hinted that he had found his man. But the ideal Southerner refused the chair...
...ideal arrangement would provide reading-room capacity equal to allowing the whole student body to be in the reading rooms at one time. So it was from the building of Austin Hall down to 1891-1892. So it was in Dean Ames's plan of Langdell Hall. At the very least there ought to be room for half of the student body at any one time, and plans should be made for reading-room space for all students. Work in the reading rooms is an essential part of the system. Unless all students are able to have continuous access...
These cases simply represent the fullfilment of the ideal of education of the Freshman who denounced his professor for a long list of assigned reading on the ground that it was the professor's duty to do the reading himself and report its content to the class. A fact in the notebook is worth two in the head is the watchword of the educational mechanist. And there is of course great truth in the principle for facts in the notebook are convenient when approaching examination prescribes review, and they don't get in the way afterward...
...Thomas, the second Yale speaker, attacked the present realization of the ideal of education. He said, "The democratic sentimental education which we enjoy today has ruined any possibilition holds us down. Today we're all morens together." Thomas concluded that education at best is merely a shelter from life...
...education could recompease us for the diseases and evils which it brings on us and then is itself necessary to cure them. Going off on a different line. Davenport represented himself as a Spartan coming to Athens, which was represented by Harvard, to show the people there that their ideal of education was not the one on which any final judgment should be made concerning the educational progress of other communities