Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide range of equipment makes the photo board an ideal training ground for camera fanciers. Experience can be gained in elementary and advanced dark-room technique, use of press cameras and electronic speedlighting, portraiture, and photo-engraving. If you have no press camera of your own, the CRIMSON will supply one. No previous experience is necessary...
Unfortunately, there is no sure scientific way to identify late-blooming Churchills. But most campuses try their best to look for more than brains. Today, says Director of Admissions Charles William Edwards of Princeton, "we talk in terms of the ideal entering class, not the ideal individual candidate. We want a well-rounded class. We wouldn't want everybody to be geniuses in physics, or editors of their school newspapers." "We want," says Dean Walker of Brown, "the brightest boys, but we want them balanced too." A typical well-balanced group is this year's freshman class...
...inevitably turn to authority, to professors, in short, to the lecture system as a crutch. As advocates of the continuance of the lecture system, we hope to find on the platform creative, searching, synthesizing minds who can provide the latest insights into areas of knowledge: if this ideal were reached more often, there would be fewer complaints about the system. For in theory, the system is absolutely necessary today: it provides the only way in which to get a basic grounding in what is now known, and who now knows it, and what books now contain it, as a prelude...
...inevitably turn to authority, to professors, in short, to the lecture system as a crutch. As advocates of the continuance of the lecture system, we hope to find on the platform creative, searching, synthesizing minds who can provide the latest insights into areas of knowledge: if this ideal were reached more often, there would be fewer complaints about the system. For in theory, the system is absolutely necessary today: it provides the only way in which to get a basic grounding in what is now known, and who now knows it, and what books now contain it, as a prelude...
...Conflict v. Adjustment. Until a generation or two ago the U.S. lived by what Whyte calls the "Protestant Ethic" of thrift, hard work and competition, but this is gradually being replaced by the "Social Ethic" of security, collective spirit and "scientism." The ideal of healthy conflict is being replaced by the ideal of adjustment. Big organizations in the U.S. have become self-contained welfare states, "citadels of belongingness," to which the new generation pays almost monastic allegiance. "They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization...