Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here again Mr. Conant's judgment must be criticized. Several of the ten who were fired showed extraordinary brilliance during their terms at Harvard. It is quite certain that better men will not turn up. It is even more certain that these assistant professors were not judged fairly, when it is considered that their departments were forced to recommend their dismissals--after the manner of the Walsh-Sweezy Case-- because there was no other possible expedient. All this is beside the point that they are leaving behind them gaping holes during the next four or five years, before...
...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...
...James Bryant Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...
Yale's Charles Seymour: "Whatever the outcome, it is certain that in the future a heavier responsibility will rest upon the United States for the preservation and the fostering of the things most precious to a university - the things of the mind, of the spirit, of beauty, individual freedom, intellectual power...
...estimate of the effect, beneficial or deleterious, which the ADAM may have on the average person's attitude towards the art has crawled out of the precarious position it occupied during the nineteenth century, a position between the pit of conservative morality and the pendulum of progressive realism, certain fundamental questions are still unanswered. We find ourselves still confronted with the time-worn, but nevertheless basic, problems. Shall we accept brutal, brazen phases of the world as art on a par with the more pleasant and morally pure aspects of our existence? Is there any difference between the moral...