Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historical Society, the Bureau of British Universities, the American University Union. The district is quiet and dignified, well served by tram, tube and busses, seemingly an ideal spot for a concentrated university quarter. The option was to expire April 1, but up to last week the University of London had done nothing towards taking it up. A dozen reasons were given-the site was too cramped, too citified, too expensive. The real reason was concealed- the "bigwigs" of the University's colleges were afraid of being nudged and bunted by one another's reputations and personalities if brought...
...character personality, and promise. If the function of a college be the development of the complete man, it follows that an admission system based purely upon success in written examination is built on too narrow a foundation. The new policy is therefore a logical deduction from the Platonic ideal of human development...
Although a vocational school for hoboes would seem to be ideal, this new institution shuns such practicality to follow the tendencies of liberal education. Pubic speaking, visits to art galleries, musicales, all these and other cultural effects find place in the curriculum. In sum they represent an enrichment of each vagrant's life. After a winter spent in Chicago and enlivened by intellectual restlessness, the happy tramp heeds the call of the broad highway, his acquaintance with the humanities having given him that detached, impassive view of life, so idispensable to well-poised members of his profession...
...hostile mob, he arrives in a tine settlement of Finns, living peacefully on the shore of Lake Superior in the shadow of a scowling granite face which Nature, in an angry mood, has carved on the mountainside. Sick to death of his fellowmen, he grasps at the ideal of the superman, whom no laws or conventions can touch, and seeks to raise himself to this height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation of his new-found ideal. He lusts for the wife of his host; he plays upon the superstitions of the old people; he takes life...
...university where the professors were determined to foster this spirit of intellectual audacity. Suppose that courses in economics offered a reasonably unprejudiced treatment of socialistic theories, that English courses were prepared to deal adequately with Joyce or Eliot or Blake. Any education which such a university could furnish, however ideal its equipment might be would demand the contribution by the student of a certain amount of individual judgment, in reality a much greater amount than in the kind of university where education comes wrapped in neat patterns. If the student still furnished no intellectual reagent of his own, the compound...