Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other extreme are those individuals who are convinced that the University is coeducational "in point of fact" and look toward a future utopia of Har-cliffe, Rad-vard, or a truly "coeducational Harvard." They would agree with the University professor who says that since the initial step of holding joint classes, "everything else is inevitably going closer together...
...when he looks at the accumulated evidence, Jacob feels that although college does make a difference, it is not a very fundamental one for most students. He notes that college tends to move students toward a greater uniformity and at the same time somewhat more flexibility of social outlook, but he feels that these are changes on the surface of personality, and do not involve the fundamental values which shape a student's life pattern. "They certainly do not support the widely held assumption that a college education has an important, general, almost certain 'liberalizing' effect," he claims...
This conclusion is especially interesting because it refutes a sizable number of attitude studies which claim to find a clear trend toward liberalism with increasing exposure to academic influence. Jacob points out, however, that most of the studies which report this trend were conducted in the 1930's when exceptional social and economic distress brought about a general liberal reorientation. He notes that more recent surveys comparing college graduates with others find the difference in outlook negligible on many questions, and that on economic issues the college man is likely to be more conservative than the others...
...generation of students which came to college in the 1950's has been called "silent," perhaps with some justification. But if it was silent, it was also serious, and nowhere was seriousness more evident than in post-war attitudes toward education...
Elgar might have remained an obscure provincial composer if he had not been encouraged by his wife, a general's daughter. At 43 he won fame at last with his thunderous oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. As Edwardian England wandered toward World War I, his reputation rose on a great wave of public nostalgia...