Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Instead of a philosophy that rests upon the belief that only good could come from the absence of restraint and that the essence of freedom lies in that fact, today's society seems to build upon a faith that it is the function of our economy to assure certain minimum claims to individuals...
...present Harvard favors individual instruction over the German lecture system; it favors specific instruction over the Chicago survey system. It is the belief of progressive educator's that the goal of college is to help the student formulate a purpose and to keep him aware of how to reach it. Fingering these two ideas, the undergraduate can ask pertinently if Harvard's theory fits that goal. And specifically he should ask whether the admissions, advisory, and tutorial systems, which are all related by a thread of continuity, carry out the theory. Perhaps the answers to these questions...
...church and market square and bounded by a wall, "one was either in or out of the city; one belonged or one did not belong." If one belonged, one also belonged to an association, religious, trade or craft. The city and its social life had form. Contrary to general belief medieval towns were laid out in rectangular patterns when the site allowed it. Otherwise they usually conformed to the irregular contours of the land. The narrow streets were essentially footways for getting from one group of buildings to another; their narrowness saved money on paving and protected shop fronts from...
...lengthiest book. The story of Russian pre-Revolutionary intellectual life, it was called Bystander, revolved around an apathetic, intelligent provincial lawyer, Clim Samghim, who flirted all his life with the revolutionary movement, drifted with the winds of doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published as The Specter, showed Samghim just as irresolute...
Sergeant McAuliffe of the Cambridge Juvenile Delinquency Squad, now called "the Red Squad," said last night that little progress had been made on locating the guilty parties, but still expressed his belief that Harvard men may be involved...