Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even mere starting confessions may be found in the editors' introspective preface: "We have dedicated ourselves to a high ideal. . . . We have discovered Radcliffe. . . We don't want to live the Fragile Life and wear body orchids...
...editors that their pamphlet is a watchdog of Harvard's educational system, guarding its high standards and helping to prevent any lowering of them. As long as its criticism remains unbiased and constructive, and in so far as it continues to approach an accurate expression of undergraduate thought, this ideal will be realized...
...regular position on the Faculty. At present there seems little chance of this, since there are no professorial openings in his field and certain elements in the Faculty would strongly object. But even the granting of an appointment demonstrates the sincerity of the University in professing the ideal of unbiased liberalism in education, and in praising this it should be declared that to the ranks of notable Harvard liberals, like novelist Dos Passos and lawyers Brandeis and Frankfurter and writer Lovett, must be added scholar Granville Hicks...
...This ideal . . . has in recent years encountered serious difficulties. And these difficulties are increasing. ... In some fields it is now profitless to go where we formerly went. We find ourselves stopped at some frontiers-not because the frontiers have any greater geographical significance than they had a few years ago, but because behind them the search for truth by eager and skeptical minds has been made impossible...
...hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard's ideal of a broad education, is much the better medicine...