Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history should be dramatic, colorful, tragic. And yet it has remained niggardly and dull, its tragedies without elevation, its achievements unsung. Poets have avoided its stories and businessmen themselves have not wanted to hear them. The reason, Miriam Beard believes, is that heroes in other fields have served some ideal larger than themselves, even if they served it badly, have had some goal that business, except in a few unselfish spirits, has always lacked...
...action Harvard appears to have shown good judgement in the handling of the funds; but without the continued interest here as well as in other colleges, the Nieman ideal can never hope to transcend the first stages of embryonic form...
...social and vocational purposes. Like President Hutchins, Mr. Foerster complains that the university has become a buge department store in which every kind of ware is offered to every type of buyer. As may be expected, the solution to these evils is found in the resurrection of the lost ideal of a "liberal education," defined in various ways, but involving in all the maintenance of academic freedom...
...society, and government," then Harvard appears well on the way to its accomplishment. It by such an education is meant the broad cultivation of a man's intellect and social awareness with development of the mind as possibly the only tangible result, then Harvard is tending away from this ideal...
Such a reorganization requires the development of the junior colleges which are at present "ambiguous in aim and unsatisfactory in organization." All they accomplish now is to "keep young people from doing things that would be worse for them." However "housing is not an educational ideal...