Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
...reputation as an economist, married unhappily, accumulated a tremendous fund of information on history, literature, the natural sciences, before he was offered the chair of political economy at Lausanne in 1894. The untrained U. S. reader who opens The Mind and Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty...
Hitting hard at the plan to drop University financial support of the minor sports is 1936, the petition backed by four Freshmen makes an excellent statement of the case for their retection. Although this is a perfectly permissible stand to adopt from the abstract merit of the sports in themselves, the seven dollar levy which they propose as the means of financing them is obviously impracticable, since it is in effect an increase in tuition which would work hardship on many and would be unfair to an equal number. The issue then comes down to the question of whether...
BLIND MEN CROSSING A BRIDGE-Susan Miles-Stokes ($2.50). An ambitious novel (14 years in the writing) about beauty, innocence, truth and other abstract virtues masquerading as 19th Century English characters. Dedicated to Katherine Mansfield, founded on Thomas Hardy. George Meredith and Emily Bronte, it has the flavor of a book cast up from an earlier...
...easier and quicker, but fresco and tempera do not fade. In Manhattan last week, one of the very few art courses in the U. S. in the technique of egg-tempera painting was under way in the Cooper Union Art School under the direction of David Turnbull, an abstract painter and onetime American Telephone & Telegraph statistician who has studied the technique of egg tempera for six years in Europe and who has collaborated on a book on the subject...