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...Leonard Feeney, director of the center, said that the group sued the Government's Board of Collegiate Authority to find out whether it had properly removed eligible for the G.I. Bill...
...note with pleasure and heartily endorse the position of the CRIMSON on both the content and spelling of "skepticism" adopted in your lead editorial of December 12 last. It will be remembered that our Society fought this same issue-the productivity of skepticism-with Father Leonard Feeney late S.J. in the debating arena last fall...
Last Thursday Father Leonard Feeney, in one of his regular talks, said that "the worst impurity of the mind is skepticism." Feeney was wagging his finger at the religious heterodoxy of Harvard, but unknowingly, perhaps, he was pointing past that heterodoxy towards one of the roots of man's progress...
...geometricians' distrust of Euclid is another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head and asking questions, he will go right on doing himself some good...
Saying that the worst impurity of the mind is skepticism, Feeney blasted the "viewpoint religion" of Harvard. He stated that "academic evasion will be punished in this world and the next," and that "you can't go any lower in culture than at Harvard...