Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bachelor of Science degree should be restored to an equal rank with the Bachelor of Arts. A concrete and useful distinction should be made on the basis of laboratory study, and nothing else. There is no reason why Harvard should not lead the way in abolishing the old concept and adopting the new and logical one. Harvard can set up a plan which will have some foundation in reason and will not be regarded as one of the most cumbersome of anachronistic heritages...
Sullivan, the first speaker for the affirmative, argued that New England pays considerable taxes and gets nothing in return. Keppel, stressing Professor Merriman's concept of unity, emphasized that the United States is held together by a common language and common cultural aims and stated that New England by itself would not have adequate defense. Calvocoressi then declared that New England is culturally distinct from the rest of the country and called the Middle West a parasite fattening itself from New England. Kaufman, the last speaker, begged the audience to pity New England if she secedes, since she cannot...
...course presume to dictate a formal set of criterion by which education must be judged, but surely the concept of a community of scholars, each pursuing his own interests, is completely misleading from the standpoint of undergraduate instruction. As a goal to be pursued in the research faculty and in the graduate schools it may be valuable, but as regards the teaching of college students it is completely worthless...
...inscription is the statement that the statue is a likeness of John Harvard. This is a myth, for since Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, could find no portrait of Harvard, he modeled the figure after Sherman Hoar '82, and gave his figure an idealized head, representing only his concept of the scholarly preacher...
Statesmen he says "have included in their concept of national interests the loaning of money to foreign governments and corporations, the selling of American goods abroad, the establishment of branch factories abroad, and the tangible property owned by Americans in foreign countries." Admiral Mahan, he said, widened the concept of national defense to include the defense of these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea...