Word: causally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Harvard is ageless and men are mortal, the problem is an old one, although as Harvard has grown bigger and bigger the problem has steadily lost its frightening aspect. And there is in this thought a causal pattern which is distinctly encouraging...
...fact has not been stressed before, and certainly no account of the relations between town and gown can ignore it. But there is a long gap between the existence of such disparities of wealth and the present tenseness between the two groups. The Progressive tries to make clear this causal relation by stating that as a result of their status "a large part of the student body feel superior to and indifferent about Cambridge. He thinks its inhabitants are not only poor and ignorant but also unimportant." The townies sense and resent this attitude and hence the causa belli...
...blind man's investigation of an elephant by the sense of touch. In this case the elephant was a beam of invisible electrons. When Albert Einstein found out what they were doing, he exclaimed: "We stand here before a new property of matter for which the strictly causal theories hitherto in vogue are unable to account...
Taken altogether, the result is supposed to be a science. R.O.T.C. conforms to no known definition of a Science, but nevertheless it is foisted on unsuspecting Freshmen as if it ranked with Engineering and Chemistry. Military Science is a causal collection of Engineering which belongs in a soldier's handbook, and it is time that the University labelled it as such...
...that in a superficial way the picture of Vienna in 1815 is accurate and at times interesting, and that during the last fifty pages, when Talleyrand and Mr. Cooper are relieved of the political onus, the pictures and phrasing acquire a new freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness in the morass of inexperience and slipshed, dull expression...