Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more respectable profession. He served two years in a military hospital, struggled with chemistry until he became a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine. Chemist Borodin was 28 before he joined the powerful coterie composed of Balakirev, Cui. Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky, united in an ideal to restore to Russian music its nationalist essence. Borodin had less time than the others. His home adjoined the medical school. He would work a bit at the piano, then race through the corridors to see how a test tube was behaving. Daytimes he devoted to his medical lectures, to founding...
...restrictions on cutting classes before and after holidays were not abolished also in line with the theory of responsibility, the new policies point in the direction where Harvard should head. Admittedly, these next few years of President Conant's administration are going to be difficult ones, but the ideal toward which he is striving cannot be criticized. Yesterday's changes are another indication of his purpose to make Harvard a place where an intelligent group of men can achieve an education, not just a proud display...
Despite what young Dr. Hutchins may say about the failure of eastern educational leadership, the leading universities of this section continue to forge ahead, each toward the attainment of its own particular educational ideal. Princeton will begin next year the "No-Course Plan" for Seniors of high standing; Harvard announces the commencement of President Conant's program for the consolidation and creation of highly remunerative scholarships and followships, to bring to Harvard a community of the most brilliant students from all sections of the country. And now, according to the "Yale News", the Elis are about to have a four...
Individual efforts will, of course, differ, but it is clear that all three universities are working toward the same educational ideal: to allow undergraduates to obtain a more complete, unified and a deeper grasp of specialized fields of study, and to place more intellectual responsibility upon the shoulders of the student himself. At the same time there is the desire, being gradually accomplished to raise higher and higher the educational standards of the universities, adapting the program more and more to the needs of the advanced and brilliant student and less and less to the lacks and gaps...
...should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he come from Boston or San Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work." Taken from President Conant's much-quoted first annual report, this paragraph is the inspiration of the latest action by University Hall...