Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This ideal operation of the Glass-Steagall bill is squarely based on an old and familiar imponderable?public confidence. The measure's sponsors, however, have concluded that it takes something more real and concrete to restore public confidence than words and promises. Therefore they have armed the Federal Reserve with a new club so enormous as to batter down the worst popular fears. This club consists of an authorization to issue a potential $2.500,000,000 in new currency. Possibly the club may never be taken from the shelf for actual swinging; possibly banks can be stabilized without...
...four of the apostles were shown at the Modern Museum last week and with them the work of several of their U. S. disciples: Howe & Lescaze, Richard J. Neutra. Bowman Bros., and the recent convert Raymond Hood. Of particular interest were a Howe & Lescaze model of an ideal tenement, built on stilts to save the cost of cellar excavating; and Raymond Hood's elaborate model of a 21-story apartment tower for the country, designed to occupy the centre of a large co-operative garden...
...degree and the number of hour examinations in the individual courses are to be reduced the tutorial system finally comes into its own. Since its inception more than a decade and a half ago the student has always been forced to cater both to it and to the old ideal of education by courses which involved frequent checks and stressed purely factual knowledge. Through the years there were progressive changes, to be sure: the introduction of the Reading Period; the Junior Divisionals in History, Government, and Economics; and the more recent modifications in the English Divisionals. But the present changes...
...ideal solution of the problem as is propsed by vice denn Magruder, would be to build housing units like those of the Business School, where students could eat and sleep, and meet in the pleasant atmosphere of a Common Room to discuss at their leisure law cases and problems. The funds required for the realization of this project are not at present available. The important problem of properly housing and feeding Law School students can not be salved until sufficient money is raised for Law House Plan...
...tried to cut down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom a trace of Washington's fixity of purpose, his confidence in an ideal. With Washingtonian arrogance, though without Virginian hauteur, he wrote to a professor whom Mrs. Bloom had heard to say that Washington was not a great general: "Maybe he wasn't but England sent her best generals over here and he licked them. What do you make of that...