Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision and the new ideal which made them famous...
...economic chaos which has brought about the present depression. In his new book "Business looks at the Unforeseen," Mr. Donham suggests that economic planning be done by a "central thinking agency." Unfortunately, it would be only an advisory body to whisper in the ear of Big Business. Ideal as this method might seem to the magnate, history and experience surely point out that an advisory agency could never win enough support by gentle suasion to untangle the knots with which conflicting interests bind the commerce of the nation...
...wide distribution of the work of the foremost scholars of the world". So runs the ambitious statement of the purpose of the University Press as given in the Catalogue. Only those who have suffered their books to be published by the Press can tell how far short of this ideal the reality is. The difficulties of the work done in Randall Hall are such that scholars send to the Press only those books which commercial Houses refuse to publish...
Judging these still to be the principles by which a university should be guided, Dr. Flexner examines American graduate schools. In every instance there has been departure from the ideal. The undergraduate has become predominant, taking to himself most of the attention and revenue of the university. To be sure, physical facilities for graduate work have increased phenomenally, but the intellectual side has not gone hand in hand. The huge influx of men seeking "gilt-edge certificates" insuring well paid positions has necessitated expensive educational leviathans. The overcrowding of schools has made impossible the establishment of any cultural environment...
...from the Houses the move may seem unfair. But the action of the University carries far wider implications and is indicative of a change in policy in the school: an effort to make it more and more of graduate character. Although present restrictions seemingly make a realization of the ideal--a professional school, free from all undergraduate instruction--impossible, the University is now attempting to make the best compromise with an unfortunate situation...