Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudspeaker. Compared to the almost weightless electrons that flash through radio tubes, the loudspeaker membranes are sluggish. Their slow and clumsy response distorts the delicate signals brought to them by the electrons; the ordinary mechanical loudspeakers cannot reproduce the full range of music or the human voice. The ideal loudspeaker, the engineers have long believed, should have a diaphragm almost as weightless as the electrons themselves...
...current issue of Radio-Electronics is a description of a French loud speaker that comes close to this ideal. It inventor, Paris-born Siegfried Klein, de cided that the vibrating parts of a loud speaker should be replaced by some device that would turn electrical signals directly into sound waves in the air. After many tries and failures, he developed his "lonophone," a complicated device whose basic principle is simple...
...subterfuge in college athletics and more than enough discrepancies between stated and actual policies to make any extra obfuscation undesirable. Until Yale makes clear just what it hopes to achieve by abolishing spring practice, it will be impossible to say whether this new step is an advance toward the ideal of strictly amateur athletics...
Although the Schools and Scholarships Committees have done much since 1949, they have yet to approach the ideal of a student body combining academic excellence, outstanding ability in specialized fields, and the widest possible geographical distribution. As far back as 1946, Provost Paul Buck said "what is not obvious... is the paucity of applicants of the type we desire." Unfortunately, this still holds true. Moreover, the number of applicants per space to be filled is still far lower than at either Princeton or Dartmouth...
This situation might sound ideal to those who wish a return to the America of 1900, but it worries Minot C. Morgan, Princeton '35. Morgan is Director of the Bureau of Student Aid and Employment, and in a college where 40 percent of the students are receiving some form of financial...