Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does Matter Exist? LeGrand flouts Positivism, Hegelianism and Existentialism, but admires George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685-1753), who also hailed the importance of sense experience, Berkeley's slant, however, was rather different from LeGrand's. The bishop claimed that matter has no existence except by being perceived; that a tree, say, would cease to exist when nobody is around to see it, except for the fact that it is always visible to God.* Berkeley's metaphysics made crusty old Dr. Sam Johnson so angry that he kicked a stone, saying: "Thus I refute Berkeley!" This...
...cent in that one year. Within three years, they had gone up 312 per cent, due both to the lack of controls and the shortage of houses. In most ways, the country finds itself in a parallel situation today; indeed, in the housing shortage a problem exists which is now much more critical than after World War I. This condition alone makes the maintenance of rent-controls imperative, for even when prices of other commodities decline, rents will not follow in proportion because of the ten-year backlog of housing. The shortage will exist for some time, with the ensuing...
...principal weakness seems to lie in its younger men, a weakness which is particularly poignant inasmuch as the continued supremacy of the Harvard Faculty is predicated on its ability to replenish itself through the appointment of the very best of the young teachers and scholars. In addition, discrepancies exist among the ranks of associate and full professors, discrepancies which are reflected in the course catalogue by the absence of either more than one course in certain areas or, as in some instances, the complete absence of particular vital subjects...
...American colleges and universities today there are issues which concern students directly and are of great importance. A nationally representative student organization can provide both a medium for the widest interchange of ideas among students and a basis for unified action on issues where general agreement is found to exist...
Other opportunities exist for naval officers to serve on training duty ashore, with pay, between the same dates. These openings also are dependent on the amount of interest exhibited by naval reserve officers in this area...