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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been indicated, an interesting and useful course in some ways, it is limited in others. The student is given no historical context in which he can place the cases which he reads. The course is thus not a study of the problems which confront our country, as social qquestions, but a study of the law of those problems as they have been, as it were, defined by the Constitution. For this reason, those who are primarily interested, not in law, but in politics, social ethics, and in government administration, are bound to dissappointment, while those who desire a knowledge...
...critical integrity stand the dramatic reviewers of the more conservative papers, as well as their colleagues, the book-reviewers. These men generally resist the more rhapsodical advertising and seldom betray their public. From their writings, however, are extracted such fragments as are susceptible of favorable interpretation out of context: and thus the deceit grows apace...
...labored for hours over the 56 passages which were given for English 2, under the now traditional heading: "Interpret, discuss, supply information, as the case may require. Answers should be full, precise, and well expressed. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages. Indicate the context. Do not copy the questions." Yes, that does cover the situation pretty well, on the whole...
...required. This course is taken by many with Phil, B to satisfy the requirements for Distribution, in place of a full course in the Philosophy or Math, departments. Though the course may teach thought and the development of Logic, the student may find himself paying more attention to the context of examples in Logic than to their syllogistic form...
...Filipino leaders have . . . broadcast representations of my writings with an obvious indifference to the correlation between their statements and the facts . . . contenting themselves with isolated sentences twisted from their context. Their one-sided propaganda has tended to create in the Philippine Islands a state of mind prejudiced to my present usefulness as Vice Governor. . . . Nor should any controversy about my views be permitted to embarrass Philippine-American relations...