Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this sense, then, Dunster is not the home of the all-around man it is trying to produce. Neither is the house the ideal microcosm within the College macrocosm...
...would be ideal if the engineering concentrator would only have to take six courses in his field, as does his fellow who concentrates in Government. But as science grows in complexity, engineering education becomes more and more technical. Engineering schools so crowd their curricula with technical subjects that they find time to give students only the barest background in the humanities and social sciences. Because this type of education is so fundamentally opposed to the tradition of liberal education, the University has never tried to develop an undergraduate engineering program that could seriously compete with that of the trade schools...
Although the ideal would be for everyone to be completely on his honor, the fact remains that a college must make sure its examinations are valid, its libraries full, and its social regulations obeyed. The findings of Radcliffe's investigating committee have prompted pessimists to say that human nature being what it is, an honor system just won't work. And these pessimists always trot out a long list of reasons why such a system, a conspicuous success at Princeton, would never work out at Harvard. The community is too large and impersonal, they say. Members of one group...
Included among the 1,400 who receive these certificates are many to whom Harvard is a second choice or an after thought. These are generally enough to reduce the total admissions to 1125, the "ideal" number of admissions. According to Henry, the Board's estimates of how many will not accept their admissions have proved reasonably accurate. In recent years, the number has been from 25-100 more than the ideal number which the board hoped would show up. These few he termed insignificant
Further developing his overall theme of "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness," Read discussed the dichotomy of ancient Greek art and placed special stress on the evolution of "ideal" standardized forms or types in sculpture...