Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teacher," said Professor Chafee, "must have the privileges of the doctor, the lawyer, and the rest of the professions. If the universities are to draw the best men into their teaching staffs, they cannot limit the right of every man to investigate and teach in his own field, or to give expression outside the classroom to his views, on whatever subject he chooses...
...only limitation on the freedom of discussion of the university teacher should be that he act and speak as a scholar. The moment the thinking man is restricted in his thought half the value of his work is destroyed. You cannot say to Galileo, 'Use your telescope, but don't discover that the earth revolves about...
...stress, such as the present, the more subjects of importance that are kept before the public eye the more likely we are to reach an ultimately correct and satisfactory conclusion. How do those who want to exclude a given theory from university teaching know that it is false? They cannot be sure of that until it is thoroughly investigated, and there can be no more fitting place for such investigation than the universities...
...worth of fall rowing cannot be questioned, judging from the number of men who reported regularly during the last several months and the success of the five-day regatta which brought the season to a brilliant close. Intense interest was shown from start to finish in the rival club crews and in the competition between the three Freshman dormitories...
That inventors should receive good rewards from their inventions cannot be denied, for without inventions modern business methods would never have been possible. But it is equally undeniable that the public has a right to share in the improvements. A diminishing cost of production must benefit the consumer. In order to safeguard him, the public must make itself heard above the wranglings of labor-capital disputes...