Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wellesley is ideal for the man on the bike, even on days when the track isn't open and the stakes are only a date by the lake. Weekend outings are easy to combine, and Youth Hostles offer cheap and ruddy lodging...
...audience of about 100, largely Mather partisans, heard him proclaim the ideal that "We are not afraid of ideas. We are ready to bet our lives on the superiority of our American system." Donlan asked that men "strive to make patriotism fashionable again," and advocated "a God-fearing community of friendly people...
Although the building in which it is located was built in the latter half of the last century, the Center itself is clean and modernly-equipped. Space is the big problem at the Center, however, and plans for the ideal Annex infirmary include provision for so much bed-space that girls aren't sick but merely tired can spend a restful week-end there...
...need for the private school. The theory of better private schools has always been to provide more advanced education to the gifted student. Public schools are seldom able to offer comparable training. Rural secondary education in, for example, Alabama or Oklahoma makes it painfully apparent that President Conant's ideal of public schooling is far from realization...
Even if the public school is lacking in certain aspects, Conant argues, there are other, more important considerations: public education provides "the ideal of a democratic, fluid society with a minimum of class distinction, the maximum of fluidity, the maximum of understanding between different vocational groups." This is a rather naive notion. There are almost as many class distinctions in the public school system as there are between private and public secondary schools. A public school in a wealthy suburb, Wellesley for example, certainly represents in broad terms one class just as a public school in the poorer sections...