Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fanny Kemble appeared at the Varieties as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, but was so disturbed by the closeness of the audience that she never returned. Rarely used in recent years, the little theater, with its gilt chairs, roll-down curtain (a Nile landscape) and flaming torches, seemed an ideal setting for Rameau's wispily amusing farce about an old-maidish nymph in frantic pursuit of Jupiter's favors...
...Princeton," Woodrow Wilson wrote half a century ago, "is a place to find a vocation, not learn one." The crisis in General Education is the test of Wilson's ideal at Harvard. If the program cannot survive, Harvard will lose its greatest claim to liberal education.MARK DE WOLFE HOWE...
...evening study date will usually end up in "The Spoon," the place-to-go for Sarah Lawrence. Complete with good food, dim lighting, and a juke box, it is an ideal place for coffee and conversation. Similar on a smaller scale to Cronin's, the Spoon is not strictly a college hangout; residents from the area come also to consume bottles of beer from the counter or liquor from...
...prestige factor as they are at other colleges. To them, Sarah Lawrence is a "status-less society," in that a girl cannot acquire acclaim through the usual methods of dates and grades. The only criterion for prestige is individual brilliance, whether intellectual or artistic, and this becomes the ideal to which most aspire, not for prestige but for personal satisfaction...
Many of these restrictions stem from a misunderstanding or lack of information about the needs of education, the Dean said. He called for a statement of principles drawn up--"eventually through some form of concerted action"--which would define the "broad purposes and basic policies of the ideal national financial aid program...