Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fall reading period will swell to normal size in 1953-54, according to the long-range schedule released yesterday by Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28. This change, plus six fewer days of classes than this year, will make 1953-54 one of the most ideal calendar years in recent times...
...demanding a thorough knowledge of one foreign language, but that is not the requirement's purpose. All that the College demands is a minimal facility, enough to serve as the foundation on which, if they wish, students can later build a working knowledge. As a compromise between the ideal of an educated man, one who among other accomplishments, can handle at least two languages, and the impossibility of the student's spending time enough to gain such a full and fluent command over a foreign tongue, the present language requirement is an excellent educational policy...
What makes this problem additionally rocky is the much larger question of ridding colleges of the necessity to teach basically elementary courses. The ideal, of course, is that all such courses be taught in secondary schools, releasing college students from the drag on their college carrer and allowing the Faculty more discretion in designing the course requirements. (The Andover-Blackmere Report, soon to be unveiled, deals fully with this complication). Like most ideals, this is a long-range affair at best, since the only means of forcing these courses back into the high-schools is for all colleges to impose...
Commenting on the race, which was held under almost ideal conditions, varsity crew coach Harvey Love said, "The times were quite good, considering the race was held in the fall and the boys haven't rowed together for very long...
...arguments. It is so powerful that harm may be done if it is shown indiscriminately without a sober discussion of its social implications. We do not endorse the theme of this film. We do not approve its biased attitude. Its message of racial superiority is repugnant to our national ideal of racial equality and to all fair-minded people. There are historical inaccuracies and exaggerations in the depiction of the Reconstruction Period. From a social standpoint, the study of this film may be compared with the study of enemy propaganda--to learn how we may best counteract and defeat...