Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concept of the chiin-tzu-the good man ruling by superior talents and morality-is not unknown in other times and places. When the Scranton anthracite fields were locked in the great strike of 1902, a spokesman for the operators wrote: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for-not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country. . . ." Such remnants of U.S. Confucianism, however, have gone underground...
Author-editor Bernard J. Stern will conclude the John Reed Society's series of discussions on Marxism and Modern Thought tonight with an address on "The Concept of Social Evolution Today," in Harvard Hall 1 at 8 o'clock...
...teach something of the "tactics and strategy of science" is the aim of the book's proposed course: the suggested method, to do so by using "case histories." In an introductory chapter President Conant develops the concept of the role of science in the non-scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through...
There are advantages though. Astronomy "gets you away from this puny planet and gives you a concept of the vastness of the universe and the seeming endlessness of time," as Professor Monzel explains it. And there is no such thing as an unemployed astronomer. It is a choice which the undergraduate in search of a field of concentration must make after weighing both sides carefully--because on the other side of the fence, one thing is certain; 'you cannot major in Astronomy and still be a practical playboy...
Jaszi's prize-winning thesis discussed the subject of "The concept of National Income and National Product with Special Reference to Government Transactions," while Chang wrote on "Agriculture and Industrialization...