Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be capable of the critical digestion of great funds of knowledge. All important, they must be practical, must be able to turn out a finished, pruned product which will be useful and inspiring to the non-scholastic world. The type for this job is the great personality, the ideal teacher, the man who will be able to inspire the non-scholar group of undergraduates...
...Conant's publicized ideal with regards his faculty members has been to get men who are either expert research men and good teachers or expert teachers and good research men. An expert research man may be defined as one who is working and studying in any subject (usually in a very limited field) and is getting results in the way of discovery and a widening of the borders of knowledge; tangible evidence of accomplishment will usually be in the form of a book or paper. An expert teacher may be defined as one who has a sufficient critical knowledge...
...with me on College Hill some evening and see one of our Tupelo sunsets. Come and see one of our Southern silvery Tupelo moons. I think Tupelo is the only place in the South where we have the same beautiful moons we had before the war. . . . We have the ideal place for a fish hatchery at Tupelo. Why, sir, fish will travel over land for miles to get into the water we have at Tupelo. Thousands and millions of unborn fish are clamoring to this Congress today for an opportunity to be hatched at Tupelo...
...cross section in its rigid form has been no more successful than any other attempt to regiment sociability. In the abstract the ideal of making it possible for men of all stations and classes to mingle, even if only with the measured cordiality of a Friday evening at the Somerset, has a certain nobility of tone which permits no contradiction. As it has worked out, whether the fault of University Hall or the student body, more hostility and disappointment than conviviality have resulted...
...harm for the U. S. in assimilating alien populations. He believes it would help make a more homogeneous nation and abate race prejudice if there were more unions between white men and Negro women. He thinks the eugenists might as well call off their dream of breeding toward an ideal man until there is some agreement as to what the ideal is. He reminds eugenists that the exclusion of imbeciles among immigrants to the U. S. has not prevented imbecility from cropping up among their children...