Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience will be passed on to a circle of friends. Even in the first year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education continues to intensify this diversification. The specialization of each individual does not necessarily sabotage the ideal of a liberal arts college. If the proper conditions exist for student life, the interplay of divergent viewpoints makes for the most liberal and stimulating atmosphere possible...
...undergraduate, at least, the opportunities at Harvard for a liberal education by the vicarious methods if I may call it that are most fortunate. After the first year in the Yard the students, distributed among seven Houses, live under ideal conditions for the interchange of different points of view. Of course, no one imagines that the conversation around the dinner table turns every evening on the relative merits of philosophy or economics. Friendships are formed, however, and that is the important point...
...present moment it is difficult to find two people who can agree on the ideal of a liberally educated man. This much seems certain--such a man should have catholic tastes and many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life
...Sharing the brains" is the group's announced democratic ideal, and the brains are shared with boys aiming towards college when finances permit, and those who would be aided in their jobs by academic work...
Today Detroit's streetcar fare is 6?. Fares on 22 of its 35 bus lines have been reduced from 10? to 5? and Fred Nolan plans to slash all of them to a nickel as soon as he can persuade the city administration to authorize it. His ideal is a transportation system which makes no citizen walk more than a block from his home to the bus or streetcar...