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Forced to act, the University has several alternatives. It might compromise the original plan, leaving the posts open to non-permanent men, and pressure the departments to accord recognition for the time spent in the Tutorships. The posts could be awarded to non-tenure men on the basis of promise and be regarded as an honor and expression of confidence of the part of the Department and the University. Nonetheless, non-permanent members of the faculty, eager to move up the academic ladder, often would find their time better spent in intensive academic work, than in the heavy administrative tasks...
...that totalitarianisms arouse our deepest hostility? The best answer is not so much in their immoral quality as in the fact that they are inherently unstable because they are at war with our only trustworthy way of living in accord with the facts. For it is only by trial and error, by insistent scrutiny and by readiness to re-examine presently accredited conclusions that we have risen, so far as in fact we have risen, from our brutish ancestors, and in our loyalty to these habits lies our only chance, not merely of progress, but even of survival. They were...
...South is generally in accord that a huge education program is the most pressing need for the Negro population just now. There is virtually no opposition to plans to construct white-equal but segregated Negro school systems which the South has promised and should have provided years ago. So also does the Southerner know that a general strengthening of the overall economic standard is prerequisite to making much of the marginal South into an area which will support a harmonious Negro-white relationship...
Allied policy towards Germany. If the National Assembly had ratified boldly, with generosity and magnanimity, France might have retained the influence over policies which the U.S. and Britain instinctively accord to those whom they most respect. Instead, the little men of the National Assembly brought France down to their own untrusting, untrustworthy level. The Western Big Three would henceforth be the Western...
...times, in all places, even during sleep. The appeal is couched in these terms: 'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' One who accustoms himself to this appeal . . . can no longer live without it, and it will continue to voice itself within him of its own accord." The peasant's teacher trains him to say the prayer over and over until he can repeat it more than 12,000 times a day without strain and "this frequent service of the lips imperceptibly becomes a genuine appeal of the heart." The prayer becomes a constant, warming presence within...