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Minority. Almost academic last week became the Republican minority's squabble as to who should head what in the next House. Congressman John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut, last year's Floor Leader, and Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Rules Committee chairman, struggled for the empty honor of being nominated by the G. 0. P. for Speaker and then defeated by Democrat Gamer. Cheesemaker Snell, hard-boiled and reactionary when the Republicans are in complete control, went about last week conciliating and winning over Progressive votes to his candidacy with oversized promises of liberalizing the House rules. After...
...College of the City of New York last week editorialized for the foundation of a college Peace Department. More optimistic than many another Armistice Day editorial, it declared that adequate machinery for the abolition of war is available. So are "capable, peace-loving men." Let Norman Thomas and Bertrand Russell, both pacific Socialists, be chosen for the faculty of such a peace department. . . . C. C. N. Y. rippled politely; the faculty beamed approval...
...Russell's former instructor had an effective last word. "I see now what Socrates would have said, as he drew his cloak about him, in the conclusion of the missing dialogue; 'I understand now, my dear Bertrand, the meaning of meaning is that my mouth is watering...
...Bertrand Russell last night held for an hour the attention of an audience which packed the New Lecture Hall to standing capacity as he expounded his view that "logic can be studied entirely without attention to psychology, since you can know that two propositions have the same meaning without knowing what that meaning is; but that, if meaning be analyzed, it will probably find its definition lying in the field of behavioristic psychology...
...speaker stressed that the three fields, logic, psychology, and epistemology must be kept distinct. He was introduced, and his lecture was amusingly epitomized by Professor A. N. Whitehead, who termed the greatest of the missing Platonic dialogues the "Dialogue of Bertrand Russell...