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...refusing to support this statement, the Council felt that it would markedly detract from its earlier, widely-circulated policy dictum. In addition, it did not want to appear in favor of a blanket denial of the right of Congressional investigations of schools...
...Hole in the Boat. Cocking an older eye at the frail Laski's furious round of reading, writing, lecturing, politicking and literary partygoing. Holmes continually warned his half-century junior against "working your machine too hard." Pithier than Laski and more profound, he matched him dictum for dictum, except that the Holmes dicta more often suggested the open mind than the clenched fist. Some of Holmes's views...
Then came an appeal to Russia's deep-rooted religious tradition which still persists despite Marx's dictum that religion is "the opium of the people": "[The Russian people] are the children of the same God who is the Father of all peoples everywhere . . . Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that the Almighty will watch over the people of that vast country and bring them, in His wisdom, opportunity to live their lives in a world where all men and women and children dwell in peace and comradeship...
...line with all study of engineering in the University, aeronautics is pursued mainly as a pure science, rather than as a practical one. Administered under the Division of Applied Sciences, aeronautical engineering follows the same dictum that guides its parent Division: never duplicate the facilities available at M.I.T...
Whilst I found myself in warm sympathy with Professor Kohr's attack upon blind conformity, in his letters published in the CRIMSON for February 5, I was, I admit, startled by his dictum on democracy. I had hitherto accepted Lincoln's definition of democracy as government by the people; Professor Kohr tells us that "the most characteristic feature of democracy is not cooperation but opposition." Freedom to oppose is indeed of the essence of democracy, but to regard the government as something set up by the popular vote which it is then the main duty of the people to oppose...