Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There may be a tinge of the Utopian to the plan; it is certainly a far cry from the Widener mill. More than anything else it resembles the well-known traveling fellowships, except that in this case the holder of the award is presumably to reside at Harvard under the House Plan. But, behind the attractive details of the proposal is the fundamental idea that men of extraordinary ability commence their creative studies while they are still young, and that if the University is to aid them in their work to its best ability, it must free them from...
Response to appeals for candidates in extra-curricular activities competitions by the class of 1934, as compared to recent years, has been gratifying, although leaving a wide margin for improvement. Compared to the records of the classes of 1932 and 1933 this same record seems an Utopian ideal realized...
...Utopian university suggested by Robert M. Hutchins, president of Chicago University, as outlined in the accompanying press clipping, contains several ideas worthy of consideration. One major change, outside of proposals for sweeping revision in the whole mechanics of the present day college, is stressed. This provides for emphasis on the humanities, making them a fifth main division of study, along with social sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences, and the rest, included in the term, "college...
...this Utopian university, the faculty would have the added duties of discovering just what higher education is, as well as administering it. And the students, rather than procuring a simple cultural education, would first learn the cultural arts, as exemplified in the four two-year lecture courses; then those who were particularly qualified would specialize in one of the professional schools...
Author Upton Sinclair, 51, was born in Baltimore, educated at Manhattan's College of the City of New York, Columbia University. He has been married, divorced, remarried; has one son. He has founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair...