Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON found itself somewhat involved this year in the usual collegiate argle-bargle: urging longer hours for female guests (in accord with the ideal of "gracious living"), advocating an additional mid-year vacation and drinking for 18-year olds, battling the Harvard Athletic Association for alcohol in the stands, tickets, and general principles. Yet in the midst of the frivolity the CRIME somehow found time for serious consideration of a few major issues...
...good, they cannot observe in detail the intimate characteristics of each pupil. Each pupil's biases, habits and individual eccentricities determine how he should be taught. He may favor his left hand over his right hand, or be able to remember odd numbers better than even ones. An ideal teacher should take all such matters into account and teach accordingly...
...blocky" figures. This type wins prizes in shows and brings high prices at the stockyards, but animals selected for their blocky shape may be precisely the ones most likely to be carriers of dwarfism. The dwarfs are blocky too, and in other ways are caricatures of the beef-cattle ideal. An expensive, aristocratic bull may be the cause of a bad outbreak of dwarfism...
...invariably contradicts intellectual freedom and that prestige-consciousness cuts off creativity at the bud. On these assumptions, i.e. urges a thorough revision of present concepts of the University, including fewer papers and the abolition of lectures and exams. To be perfectly consistent in its structure of prestige, i.e.'s ideal university would also have no degrees or any other symbol of competence. Present methods of challenging incompetence are certainly not ideal, but in the present state of society it seems difficult to do without some formal evaluation of the individual, especially if he is to set himself...
...That She-Devil." Neither the birth of an illegitimate son, Maurice,* when Suzanne was 18, nor her subsequent turbulent love affairs checked her career. Under Degas' tutelage, Suzanne improved her drawing and learned the technique of drypoint etching. She did most of her drawing at home, finding her ideal subjects in the figures of maids, charwomen and women friends whom she sketched, usually bathing. Degas, astonished at her natural talent, hung her work in his dining room, once chided her: "That she-devil of a Maria, what talent she has . . . Why do you show me nothing more...