Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal status, he indicated, would be a large, loose federal structure, or series of structures, such as the one that now links Puerto Rico and the United States. "The mind of mankind must get much more accustomed to the idea of a bigger federalism," Munoz said...
...Ideal secondary school preparation for Harvard would include the following...
...evident that the time to fight for more scientists is in the early years of college, not at admission time. Instituting mathematics and science requirements beyond what is now termed "the ideal secondary school preparation for Harvard," as has been suggested by some, would only discourage applicants from secondary schools where these subjects are not taught. Until engineering schools lose their appeal as vocational preparation, Harvard will not be able to compete for high school students who "know what they want to do" and have no interest in the liberal arts...
...past few decades. One of the more difficult cases settled by the Admissions Committee last week concerned a straight-A student from a small Negro high school (74 in the graduating class) in North Carolina. Judging by his demonstrated leadership and by his secondary school record, he was an ideal candidate for admission. Being colored also gave him a definite advantage, since non-whites are given preference over equally-qualified white students. One fact kept this student out of Harvard: his 385 score on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Are cases like this "diamonds in the rough...
...grinding roommate and feel the disdain for his single-mindedness that his academic roommate may feel for his unacademic pursuits. The student-leader, in absorption in something not at all academic, becomes, to a certain extent, alienated from an academic community. In colleges where success is the ideal for the majority of the student body, the student-leader is placed in a plane above the majority, which feel a degree of awe toward him; at Harvard, whre intellecual proficiency is the ideal, the minority student-leaders are regarded as perhaps a step below that of the majority of the student...