Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience. It is significant that the Cinema Guild, recognizing the need for thoughtful criticism of motion pictures, is planning a magazine towards that end. Unbiased and intelligent criticism of past and contemporary films is the best method for developing the critical faculties of the public. It is also their belief that a knowledge of what goes into the making of a film is essential for high critical standards. This can best be obtained from men active in the profession, and an organization which can bring such men to lecture at Harvard serves a useful purpose...
...undergraduates. For example, if the college were more careful about student testimony in the legislature, that body would not have its present inflated idea of the number of communists in the college. In addition to preventing such stupidly false publicity, the University must spread its own principles and beliefs with more vigor than in the past. It is good that the college believes in freedom of teaching, but it is very good that the public, which has the power of suppressing the college, has the same belief. The extension courses, which bring the faculty into contact with a large body...
...added that the police would have no grounds for prosecution unless literature specifically inciting to violence were found. "As yet we haven't found any of that," he stated, expressing his belief that Harvard men are involved...
...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...
Said Mr. Ford: "Nothing that has occurred during the last few weeks has changed my belief that a prosperous era is ahead...