Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, at a meeting of the National Alumni Association, Princeton made known that at least one Wilsonian ideal was to be put into actual pedagogical practice. For its new School of Public & International Affairs, the college had already acquired a building, a faculty and a collection of impressive names for its advisory board. An endowment drive for $2,000,000 will get under way soon...
...when the NC-4, U. S. flying boat, boomed proudly in from the first crossing of the Atlantic, many flyers have used it as a real or potential haven. The German ZR-3, now the Los Angeles, flew over it. The Graf Zeppelin flew over it. It forms an ideal hopping-off point for North America. Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands to the south, likewise form fine harbors for Europe to South America air traffic. Of 22 successful flights across the Atlantic, both north and south, one-half of them have either flown over or stopped at these groups...
Progressive educators in recent years have established numerous "experimental" schools, very few of them conspicuously successful. If, however, President Hutchins has any real contribution to make to the advancement of education, the University of Chicago, with its high scholastic standard and efficient faculty, is an ideal "guinea...
...sticks of progress." The printed word, and often the printed word alone, redeems civilizations from an unknown past. It seems especially significant that this standard of values should emerge from the nation's capitol where progress is generally judged by criteria vaguely concerned with the tariff and a Mexican ideal of procrastination. Yet, it is quite fitting that just as Washington is the nerve center of national legislation it should also be the clearing house for national scholarship. The new ramifications of the Congressional Library fulfill this function and provide an opportunity which cannot be lightly overlooked for graduate workers...
...years residence of the undergraduate in Cambridge before obtaining a diploma. In so controlling admission to all its branches, the University aims at acquiring men of ability, men capable of grasping the opportunity that a large institution offers. The newly established Business School has taken another step towards this ideal...