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Professor Sorokin went on to divest himself of mature sociological thought on matters ranging from the level of maturity attained by Radcliffe girls to the value and standards of religion in the postwar world, to audiences ranging from Harvard undergraduates to readers of the magazine "Current Religious Thought...
Shepherding the scholars is the Institute's second Director, Frank Aydelotte. The first was Abraham Flexner, long-secretary of the Rockefeller General Education Board, who conceived the Institute to help the Bambergers usefully divest themselves of a piece of their fortune. Kindly, eary Aydelotte, onetime president of Swarthmore College, has reigned smoothly in Fuld Hall for four years. A specialist in Elizabethan literature, he hastens to admit that his professors are usually far beyond him in their special fields. He hopes that the Institute is influencing U.S. education right down to its foundations. Believing that the best teachers must...
...recent career of Mr. Meaney has demonstrated that he is a pawn in the hands of a man who has expressed his conception of the nature of justice in the now-famous phrase, 'I am the law.' . . . Can it be assumed that he will divest himself of the habits of a lifetime and administer his court with a justice unstained by politics...
...said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
...order which required NBC to divest itself of its Blue network was indefinitely suspended. The Commission felt that, since the undesirability of two networks under one ownership was generally conceded (e.g., by its own dissenting minority), the Blue would be sold sooner or later, and it did not want a forced sale on its conscience...