Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amendment Communists," and he promoted the University's policy of turning down classified research. Bundy has been particularly concerned with smoothing the transition from school to college and preparing Harvard for the pressures of expansion. Regarding physical growth of a university, he has said that he believes that no ideal criteria exist by which expansion can be guided, but that an institution's decisions must spring from its own particular abilities to face its peculiar problems...
With such a character, Charles Holt Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History, would be a success in any task involving people, and he seems particularly adapted to his role as master of Kirkland House. As one student phrased it, "I don't know just what qualities the ideal housemaster should have, but I'm pretty sure Professor Taylor has them...
...ideal of accomodation has had its drawbacks--having no other goal than team cooperation and holding the line, the Eisenhower administration has lacked information, planning, and drive. The President's trust in simple trust resulted in none of the constructive planning which might have eased integration. Disbelief in the value of planning has caused the dismemberment of federal power development and flood control. Because he seems to have no aim except to avoid--to avoid socialism, to avoid war, to avoid trouble with the team--he has lacked push. Crucial aid to schools fell through largely because the President trusted...
...magic chemistry of courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, not even fully aware at first of what might be involved in their deeds, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. They fought well and long enough to win at least the pledged right to be free of Moscow dictation and free of one-party dictatorship. I hey suffered by the thousands and died by the hundreds...
...situation. In my judgment these are minimum requirements if we are to return to the best educational use of the House system. A House is more than a dormitory. It is a device for preserving, in the midst of a large University, an intimate "collegiate way of living," that ideal brought from England at Harvard's beginning. The system has effectively proved its worth in the years before the War and since...