Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these arguments, especially the last, have considerable validity. But while such a display is one so obviously thrilling to all people despite their political, economical, or Utopian creeds, it proves very little in the forecasting of future public attitudes toward exhibitions of a similar nature...
...scholarships or the lowering of fixed charges. He envisions the possibility of a ten million dollar fund whereby every year a thousand men who would otherwise enter another college would be enabled to come to Harvard on a complete equality with all. Such a fund is perhaps a Utopian dream. The proposal to employ such money as the University may acquire for an increase in scholarships and a lowering of charges, however, will have the solid support of undergraduates. More important to the University than buildings are the men who fill them. Harvard ought to do everything...
Such were the remarks and hopes voiced from the speaker's table in last night's celebration of the physical middle-age but spiritual youth of the News. They do not constitute a "God's in his heaven." Utopian vision of the future, but a recognition of the trend of events already in progress. Here at Yale, the next few years will see the inception of the new Colleges System, the increasing importance of education as emphasized by the more rigorous (although broader and less specific) requirements of the new curriculum, and a greater interest in the informality of intramural...
...interest people in the progressive theory of their profession seems an almost insoluble problem. It involves making scholarship practical and making ordinary business men more thoughtful. The notion is certainly Utopian. On the other hand, university extension courses already afford a practical means of bringing the best university thought to bear on contemporary life. Their development can increase definitely, the universities' contribution to the country...
What might seem a Utopian scheme of University organization has been adopted by Johns Hopkins college recently. The plan, akin to the system soon to be put into effect at the University of Chicago, provides for the abolition of grades in courses, complete freedom of choice for the student within the selected field of his work, and the substitution of frequent conferences with professors for lectures and written quizzes. A comprehensive examination at the end of the student's work determines whether or not he is graduated...