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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Borrowing from Macaulay's pleas for competitive civil service examinations, President Conant declared his suspicion of new fields of study, saying that to abandon the old disciplines is to jeopardize "the selective principle in our educational machinery". The issue here he showed to be whether an educated man is one who can do cross word puzzles, or one who has learned how to investigate, study, and draw rational and original conclusions. This distinction is highly important, and one which the student is in danger of over-looking due to the world's apparent disregard for it. Here the superficialities...
...claim of Australian "Adviser" William H. Donald, who had advised both the Kidnapper and the Kidnappee in Sian and holds a most ambiguous position. He claimed that the Government bombers, but for heavy fog and snow over Sian during an entire week, would have dropped bombs with indiscriminate abandon all over the place and might have killed the Kidnappee instead of forcing the Kidnapper to disgorge...
...state visit to Prague, placed similar munitions orders for Rumania with the great Skoda works. Not only was His Majesty feted discreetly by "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, but the Archbishop of Prague permitted his flock to eat meat that Friday with abandon, and the electric works furnished current at reduced rates to citizens who strung up lights on their houses in honor of Carol...
Last week Hiram took stock of "intensive study." The faculty voted 24-to-3 to continue it. The students, who study for nine-week periods such subjects as chemistry, economics, or biology and then abandon them for the year, were even more enthusiastic, 88% for, 4% against, 6% undecided. Dull students as well as smart ones liked intensive study. Hiram thought that "a possible trend toward a more introverted type of student was indicated." One student observed: "If you put in four-fifths of your time on economics for nine weeks, you're bound to learn something about...
...perception-. The rate of expansion has been slowing down so that the past time scale is remarkably limited. In short, the necessary adjustments and compensations suggest that the model may be a forced interpretation of the data." In plainer language, this meant that Astronomer Hubble is now willing to abandon the expanding universe to mathematical cosmologists and philosophers, pending a further development of theory, or the erection in 1940 of Caltech's 200-inch super telescope, which may finally settle the question...