Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hash of the material learned before. For this reason another course should be added, dealing almost entirely with the philosophical problems raised in science. Such a course, because it would not need to initiate students to many new facts, could approach the General Education Committee's goal of the ideal Natural Science course: tying together a view of man and his knowledge of the world...
...only the people of religious faith throughout the world who have the power to overcome the force of tyranny. It is in their beliefs that the path can be found to justice, freedom and truth. Their religious concepts are the only sure foundation of the democratic ideal...
Such an arrangement would be ideal for the Boston; the broadcast fees would help balance its budget. Without even an extra rehearsal, Munch and his musicians could broadcast any one of their four weekly concerts. The NBC Symphony would disappear, though under union contracts most of its members would be kept on for other studio assignments...
...Ferry, last of the original masters, finally accepted the application of a room of four doubtful freshmen in poor standing. One of the four was later dismissed, but two of the others became successive varsity football captains. In such a fashion was a House reputation born and the ideal cross-section of the student body soon warped. Leverett, for instance, with Professor Kenneth B. Murdock as master soon began to attract a large percentage of the College's English concentrators. On the other extreme, Dunster with three top economics tutors found itself in 1932 with only two economics concentrators...
When a Kirkland man propounds the myth that his is the "friendly" House, the House with "spirit," he is subverting the ideal that his Master, Mason Hammond '25 once set forth for a House community: It must rest, he said, on a delicate balance between "pressure and laissez-faire, hollow heartiness and selfish isolation; in short, between the claims of the individual and these of the whole...