Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As Galesworthy once pointed out, the good biographer and the good critic are almost as rare as the unicorn because of a weakness of many to forego sentimental impulses. Further, he must steel himself against the susceptibilities of ancestor worship.
We respectfully suggest that, in organizing his lecture, the professor should give full weight to this consideration. Having done so, he might further reflect that minds warm up in the morning even more slowly than fingers. A reasonable solution might be to mount the platform at about 9:57.
Dividing the whole field of secular learning into the three fields of accumulative knowledge, philosophy, and literature and the fine arts, President Conant went on to distinguish between "invention" and "scientific discovery" as separate phases of the area of "accumulative knowledge. Science," he emphasized, "emerges from the other progressive activities...
Thirdly, a sub-committee of the Assistant Deans group is studying the possible effects of further liberalization of the war credits requirement, with a view toward granting that war credits be dropped where the student agrees to complete the extra work.
Next week's election will serve not to see "the best man win," but will instead--with the 1948 contest becoming current business--put party barriers in even bolder relief. Should the Republicans carry Congress, the clash between administration and legislature would further garble Washington's almost unsolvable political puzzle...