Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Science teachers found that current articles on the atom, radioactive rays, etc., were ideal for introducing students to scientific principles. Furthermore, on such topics as radioactive rays, in which recent developments have outstripped the textbooks, "the only major source of [this new] information is current materials...
...vogue takes little cognizance of class standing and keeps an artificial caste hierarchy intact for four years of everyone's college life. The person who took girls to football games as a Freshman and is still escorting them there as a Senior has approached little nearer the ideal seat by his academic efforts. The places he wants are being taken by Freshman and graduate students and others who sit alone and like...
Eight hundred businessmen, meeting in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler yesterday, heard president Conant discuss the responsibilities of Americans and American universities to the world economy. Conant called "equality of opportunity" a significant American ideal which has meaning "only in a competitive society in which private ownership and the profit motive are accepted as basic principles...
...said we can advance international stability and our own democracy in the new few years "to the degree that we can demonstrate that this unique American ideal is no mere myth or legend...
...pleaded for a Utopian ideal. "Capital," he said in 1926, "must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...