Word: utopianizing
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...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...
...that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
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...
What is needed is some common ground where all these factions can meet, debate, and arrive at their several solutions for the problems of the world. Nothing could be more healthy, more stimulating, or more worthwhile. Unfortunately the difficulties confronting such a Utopian organization are tremendous. The various groups do not want to meet each other regularly. Support of the forum by one clique would immediately give it a touch of the plague in the eyes of the other sects...