Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality does not meet this ideal in Wood's view. "Meeting with these people is like riding through the peasantry of Paris, going to Versailles and sitting down with a group of courtiers who are not in touch with the commoners," he said...
...monitor jobs "are ideal jobs," Allard says. "Many buildings are empty at various times of the year and provide an ideal place to answer phones and do homework." He adds, "The jobs we ask them to do are not exactly difficult, but they require a lot of responsibility...
...five-page report, titled "The Ideal of the Harvard House System," the SCA based its quota recommendation on Lowell's original conception of the house system. Lowell saw the houses as a means to preserve the diversity of the College in smaller residential units while improving students' academic and social environment...
Although the SCA report did not specifically discuss introducing quotas on minorities in the individual houses, it compared the athlete imbalances to hypothetical gender and minority imbalances, stating, "It would certainly vitiate the Lowell ideal (and the current coeducational ideal) if any house became disproportionately male or female. The same would be true if any house became disproportionately minority or white. We believe the same is true when any house becomes disproportionately representative of either athletes or non-athletes...
...been talking about the ideal person, and we conclude that it could only be someone who at least walks on water," said Dean of Radcliffe College Phillipa A. Bovet. Bovet said she hopes the new president will be a fine fundraiser and "someone who will be excited by the uniqueness of Radcliffe...