Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where to live is the question that will overshadow all others, especially for the first weeks of this record-smashing term, but the Housemasters and the higher officers in the Faculty fix their limits, not on the availability of mere shelter but on the extent to which the inevitable crowding will affect the intangibles considered important adjuncts to ordinary classroom work...
...told radio officials . . . my application for broadcasting time . . . was made solely from my desire to counteract, to some extent, the veritable flood of religious propaganda to which, for the last 15 years, the American people have been subjected...
...attacks aimed at the Student Council in the past three months have come from all sides. Seemingly every organization functioning in the College this summer has had only criticism for the Council. However justified this criticism may have been, it has been unfortunate to the extent that it has tended to obscure the very real value which the Council has had across the years. In 1931 the Council was in the forefront of the decentralization plan for the College which included the establishment of the House libraries and activities. In two scholarly reports in the middle thirties on curriculum...
...future of an independent India: "Every village has to be self-sustained and capable of managing its affairs, even to the extent of defending itself against the whole world. . . . In this structure, composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, never ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with an apex sustained by the bottom but an oceanic circle whose center will be individually always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of villages, till at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals. . . . In this there is no room...
Stark Realism. Locke's philosophy was elaborated and to some extent corrected by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Hegel followed Kant, and Marx followed Hegel. One secret of the "arrogance" displayed by Germany and later by Communist Russia toward Britain and the U.S., Northrop observes, has been their assurance that their philosophical foundations were more modern and hence superior...