Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislative program. In a letter sent last week to their colleagues, Senators Douglas, Humphrey, McNamara, Morse, Murray, and Neuberger offered a sixteen point program based upon their party's platform. Yet at present their proposals are not much more than an important step in the right dircetion. They should strive to make the Democratic party an effective instrument of opposition and of leadership, and to present the liberal point of view in a Congress where many ideas need challenging...
...Master Ferry and Winthrop House are to be congratulated for acting upon and idea which has long been considered the future of Harvard by farsighted educators. Master Ferry said that it is important to strive now for a small college atmosphere. In a few years the problem will be insurmountable--if we do not act immediately...
...Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the Washington school of thought and advocated the right to vote, civic equality and the education of youth according to ability. "By every civilized and peaceful method," he urged, "we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration of Independence. In 1905 he founded the Niagara Movement and in the following year at Harpers Ferry drafted resolutions which proclaimed, among other things: "We will not be satisfied to take...
Since there are no absolutes, says Brameld, truth is only what the majority says it is. The task of both school and society is to determine what goals men should strive for by appealing to "social consensus." Though the individual must be encouraged, "our aim is always to build a 'group mind' that expresses the social consensus of the majority." The all-embracing value for the individual, says Brameld, is "social self-realization," and that comes only when each man comes "to grips with the realities of our group-centered culture...
...Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the Washington school of thought and advocated the right to vote, civic equality and the education of youth according to ability. "By every civilized and peaceful method," he urged, "we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration of Independence. In 1905 he founded the Niagara Movement and in the following year at Harpers Ferry drafted resolutions which proclaimed, among other things: "We will not be satisfied to take...