Word: defendant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...especially fruitful in philosophy and psychology, for these are discussable subjects. There is no single philosophy to be learned, no one true doctrine to be painlessly injected under the student's skin. He is entitled to his own point of view, if he can find any arguments to defend it. The aim is to lead the student to an intelligent, and not wholly elementary, knowledge of the problems of philosophy and psychology, of the relations of these subjects to one another, to other branches of learning, and to life...
...Prarda, he said : "Great political significance is attached to this term [Trotzkyism] in relation to the peasant question. I repudiate emphatically the assumption that the formula 'permanent revolution' was used by me as denoting lack of care in handling the peasant question." And he goes on to defend himself against the charge that he was seeking to create a personal platform for himself...
...race for school eights which will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock last year's winning Kent School eight will defend its title. Huntington School, Brookline High School, and Lynn Classical School will send eights to oppose Kent...
...obligation owed to humanity by medical men. Unquestionably doctors are better qualified than any one else to preach sound health, yet they are willing to leave the job to unorganized public opinion. When they feel a lack of public support, they complain that they have no time to defend themselves. This is an age of strenuous advertising, in which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall measurably in its success. Physicians may have dignified their business of selling health by calling it a profession, but if they are content to let more...
...scrupulous ethics of physicians all over the country. Doctors everywhere are content to leave it to other people to expose takes and attack charlatans, because, in the words of Dr. Galdston of the New York Society, "We doctors can advance our scientific knowledge but we have no time to defend science itself. . . . Ours is the aggression against disease, but the citizen's duty is the defense of our purpose...