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...Descartes' most disastrous bequest, says Van Dusen, was his distinction between thought and matter-a dualism which became in Kant the divorce between reality as revealed by faith, and reality as revealed through the senses. The result today is the frightening schism "between facts and values, between the realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than...
Temptation. Last week's announcement about the $650,000 bequest sent newsmen hunting for him again. They found unmistakable evidence that Munsell, now 55, had not become a horny-handed laborer after all. He owned a remodeled Manhattan brownstone house, rented the top two floors, and was ensconced in a lower-floor apartment with a good library and all the comforts of home. Where had he gotten the money? His friends said it had come from his mother and from other relatives. Munsell, they added, had changed his attitude slightly after a few years of poverty. Having become poor...
Furthermore, these are the days of Associations for the Advancement of Colored People, Associations for "Minority" rights, and contributions to Israel. That's the business of those who make it their business. But I do not see how anybody who shares in such activities can unblushingly squawk about a bequest in aid of Anglo-Saxons. It's a movement from the censorship of singers and the censorship of movies to the censorship, now, of bequests...
With the scholarship bequest by Mrs. Day there was no possibility of making such an effort. The conditions of the gift were stated in the will and the choice for the University was simply to accept for not accept. The decision to accept was not a simple triumph of expedience over principle; it did represent a certain degree of compromise with the ideals of non-discrimination...
...outweigh by far the disadvantages of a slight deviation from a strict and admirable principle. Had the gift been small, or the wording of the gift more blatantly discriminatory, or the Slight of the Medical School less desperate, there would have been an undeniable argument for refusing the bequest. As it is, none of the negative arguments can override the benefit that will come to all scholarship students in the Medical School...