Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professors have long indulged in a favorite indoor sport known as Plan the Ideal College--usually played over cups of coffee in the Faculty Club. In most cases, however, the game is just for fun, and the brave visions never get beyond the lunch table. It is rare that a systematic study is made and oven rarer when the academic community perks up and shows interest. But the unusual happened last December when four well-known colleges in western Massachusetts--Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts--issued The New college Plan. Written by C. L. Barber, Stuart...
Conant's report, based on visits to 55 schools in several states, called for consolidation of scattered school districts to obtain wider curricula, better teaching, and better facilities. He defined the ideal size of a "comprehensive school" as 500 to 600 students...
Joseph asserted that architects studying the problem feel that Lehman could be converted into an ideal center. There would be space for a dining room, bunk quarters, a large library, a recreation room, and common rooms, he pointed...
...other hand, the young psychologist Hugo Munsterberg, James' assistant, was the one who called Gertrude his ideal student. She participated animatedly in his seminars, as well as in those of George Santayana, who gave her new reading in the English philosophers. Other subjects she took included history, modern languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and zoology. "I came out of the nineteenth century," she wrote, "you had to be interested in evolution. I liked thinking.... I liked looking at everyone and talking and listening...
...study also found that the "ideal" college was co-educational and had a national reputation, an outstanding faculty and high scholastic standards. A majority of parents preferred colleges to be small, private, and without religious affiliations...