Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he berates the colleges for being "too narrowly intellectual, too critical, too debunking, too skeptical," one senses that the Dean's attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches...
...This step is being taken," the statement said," in accordance with a long-held belief of both the University and the Massachusetts General Hospital that the care and treatment of medical specialties can be more efficiently handled as part of a large institution of general scope than in smaller individual units...
Forecasting a trend, Dean Mayo voiced the belief that Ph.D.'s would probably maintain their present level this spring but would almost certainly decrease in numbers next year...
...past I had always felt hesitancy in giving for China Relief. I was of the opinion that what mattered a few million more or less Chinese, that their situation was pretty hopeless anyway. I had contributed to our church (Presbyterian) mission work for schools and medical work, in the belief that education of the natives to work out their own salvation was the solid foundation which merited our support...
MacArthur's Problem. Last week Mac-Arthur was deep in one of the most difficult problems of his career. Defense of the Philippines was always planned in the belief that communications with the Philippine Islands could be kept open...