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...pound crew, having rowed to the greater glory of Harvard for thirty-five years, has requested that its status be changed to that of a major sport. If time and energy spent were the only criteria, there would be no question that it deserves a major sport status...
...agression pact, however, does not seem an adequate answer to the disarmament impasse. While somewhat more substantial than the Dullesian criteria for Russian expressions of good-will (e.g., an end to the Soviet drive to "subvert independent countries"), the British idea cannot produce any lasting disarmament agreement by itself and may not even be sufficient as a first step...
Perhaps the most serious deficiency of this book is, however, its failure to conform to supposedly "aesthetic" criteria. This book is badly written, badly constructed, and shows no evidence of having been designed to communicate anything of significance to the reader. It is perfectly possible that the absence of content is due to Dr. Farnsworth's intention of acting as a popularizer. But a man who brings science to the people must tell these people something that they do not know, or he will be useless...
This failure to consider aesthetic criteria is a romantic arrogance. Social scientists seem to believe that "truth" exists independently of their efforts to embody this truth in verbal or symbolic formulations. They further believe that they have direct access to this truth, and they therefore assume that if they make a statement which is not false, they are necessarily increasing human knowledge, no matter how inane, inarticulate, or inept their formulation...
...Committee. (3) This new inter-house council could also serve as a real clearing house for dance dates, etc., something which the present student council cannot do. (4) And finally, the very bad reputation of the present council would not be transferred to a new group chosen on different criteria in a less political fashion. William R. Cotter...