Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created by textbooks but by atmosphere-the consecrated service to students by teachers. I try to impress on the students that we are just trustees of knowledge for the benefit of others. That those with learning must be generous. Learning for the sake of learning may be the ideal of some, but not here. We want learning for the sake of diffusion...
...distribute commuters among the houses would be ideal. But the houses are already overcrowded, and many commuters are unwilling or unable to pay the extra $1000 dollars to live in the college. The alternative of non-resident membership in houses is almost equally unfeasible. Commuters would still have to expend vast amounts of time in travel, one of the principle objections to the present situation. An extensive influx of non-residents would also make necessary the building of new lockerrooms in each house, as well as increased over-crowding in dining halls...
...likeable figure--even if he is more concerned with gaining power than with how the party does so. "Tactics are important," Hoederer explains, "but our end is the same." Hugo wavers in confusion when the leader explains that what the young man really wants is not Communism, but an ideal--love for principles...
...abroad. There may also be resistance from some people of old American stock and of moderate means whose sense of economic and social security has been challenged by the rise of vigorous newcomers whose families came more recently from Europe; similarly, from those who maintain unreasoning resistance to the ideal of equal rights for all, regardless of race or color...