Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accoptance into the Ivy League would be no more than we deserve," William Miller, a member of the Rutgers Board of Trustees, claimed. Membership in the League has meaning beyond the football field. It means a responsibility to conduct oneself in a thoroughly dignified manner, both on and off the field...
...attack on French conduct of the Indo-China...
...judge himself competently, the standards he applies to his conduct must of necessity be beyond his power to modify or define. If man has the power to define what his standards are, then they almost inevitably become what he wills them to be. Thus through man's infinite capacity for rationalization, many lies may seem to be truth, deceit may wear the cloak of honor, oppression may be practiced in the name of justice. This, to me, is the great ethical error of materialism, humanism and all other systems of philosophy which do not recognize the independent existence...
...indispensable basis for any law that would secure justice and freedom and equality is its identity, both in inception and in execution, with the principles of Christian conduct . .. [The] Declaration of Independence [says]: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' . . . Thus we assert our conviction of the divine source of a set of absolute spiritual values, and with it we express a conviction that these values must...
...Salzburg Seminar from the list of Harvard-supported charities. But I have derived what consolation I might from the assumption that this ill-considered move was born in ignorance of what the Seminar is doing, since I cannot imagine that rational men, presumably the representatives of rational men, could conduct themselves in such a manner were they in possession of any of the facts...