Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized in 1948, by the American Geographical Society, JIRP was led by Glaciologist Maynard Malcolm Miller (now 30), who decided that the Juneau Ice Field was an ideal subject for a long-range study of glaciers. It is comparatively accessible, only twelve miles from Juneau. Out of the huge field (700 sq. mi.) flow at least eleven glaciers, ten of which are slowly receding. The eleventh, which particularly intrigued the scientists, is the great Taku glacier, which has advanced more than 3½ miles in the last 50 years...
...where the wind from the Pacific, hitting the high Sierras, sets up waves that can lift an insulated, pressurized glider up to 42,000 ft. Flying gliders into these windy elevators has become a popular hair-raising sport, and the flights of the Southern California Soaring Association are an ideal means of investigating the waves. Working with the glider pilots, Dr. Kuettner will bring back information from which Drs. Queney and Holmboe hope to work out a way of predicting the wind's behavior...
...Once on the college rolls, the athletes must somehow be kept there. Their schedules must be arranged without reference to the normal procedure leading to graduation, but rather to enable them to meet the minimum requirements . . . Courses most vital to the attainment of the educational ideal of the college are avoided in the search for the easy course . . . The regimen of football players makes them unable to enter a program of premedical study. There is pressure for special consideration for athletes on the score of heavy athletic duty. The tragic consequence is illustrated by the graduation records of the past...
...distinguishing between the responsibilities of church and school in meeting the grave moral, political, and economic problems of today, Conant quoted from ex-President Eliot's statement on the religious ideal in education. "The churches must see to it," Eliot wrote, "that each imparts to its children ... its own conceptions of the nature and attributes of the Deity, of the historic Christ, of ecclesiastical authority, and of the authority of the books it holds most sacred. Each church will need to teach its own history and its own peculiar thought, and to familiarize its children with its peculiar dogmas...
...happened to be able to obtain some sort of higher education. Obviously, while a new measure was first going into operation, it might be impossible to work this deal into practice: but a law with some long-range goal in view should at least make the ideal possible...