Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of Utopian literature recently given to the College Library by the Reverend F. G. Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, is now on exhibition in the Treasure room of the library...
...ideal is almost impossible under a liberal educational method, since it would require in the first place a Utopian selection of students. Since there is a very human need of driving of some sort, definite educational standards are best for the majority of students; which, however, are not so rigid as to permit no leniency. In other words as far as actual practice goes, a fairly standardized system of requirement which prevents educational confusion and provides a spur, at the same time allowing exceptions in cases of special ability or needs, comes nearest to attaining the college ideal...
...bequest consisting of a collection of 600 volumes of Utopian literature has been received by the College Library from the Reverend F. G. Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, emeritus. The most important volumes of the collection are at present on display in the Treasure Room of the Library...
Supplementing these two sections is a veritable compendium of historical and critical commentaries of Utopian literature, forming an introduction to the niceties of the collection. Professor Peabody has been emeritus for almost twenty years...
...same principles to social groups elsewhere. If this plan has been working for over thirty years at Harvard, and is being used in the other universities of the country with such salutary results, it is difficult to see how this plan of Wilbur and his experts can be termed "Utopian," revolutionary," or "contrary to good medical practice...