Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These final remarks of President Butler's are too deftly conciliatory to escape the charge of sophism. In this, they illustrate a fundamental obstacle to academic freedom in this country. The entire educative mechanism is bound up in a complex of interdependencies which hamper free action. President Butler adroitly approves the theory and forbids the act, just as do so many other leaders of education; they are all accountable to some lone who would be injured by an undue enthusiasm over truth. It is certain that freedom in teaching is desirable. But it is a futile hope until the departmental...
...unexpected statement yesterday, revealing his disapproval of the measures that have recently been taken by Yale officials to cut down on extramural contests, Malcolm Stevens, Director of Athletics, declared that the changes proposed to revise and simplify the football practice and schedule were impractical, and would hamper the team in many ways...
...leadership of its original-minded President Butchins, set up last fall a virtual educational Utopia for its entering class. Eager students and interested instructors were to cooperate in an earnest and, on the part of the former, practically independent quest for knowledge. No examinations, no grades were to hamper the work until, at length, the individual student felt himself ready to take a series of comprehensive examinations which would graduate him to the senior section of the university. What is to happen then is still a little vague since no one has as yet taken these examinations and the university...
...promising that their offspring would be raised in strict Catholicism. Because these guarantees have often been disregarded, the new law from Vatican City states that persons seeking dispensation must now give actual proof that they will be able to carry out their intentions. The fact that secular law may hamper or prevent education of children in the Church will not be accepted as an excuse. It is a "great horror to innocent souls" to have the law of dispensation "rendered impotent." Offending Catholics will be unchurched until they indicate repentance...
...Vagabond all life is one great Reading Period in which to indulge his wayward fancies. Untrammeled by the ordinary necessities which hamper men he can lead the pleasant life of the dilettante. For celibacy and his extra-curricular affiliation with the University render him exempt from the cares which burden his fellows...