Word: hogben
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY-P. W. Bridgman-Macmillan ($2.50). RETREAT FROM REASON-Lancelot T. Hogben-Random House ($1). By the centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
More aggressive, wittier and compact is 42-year-old Lancelot Hogben (Mathematics for the Million), an English biologist who calls himself a "scientific humanist" and is a kind of English version of iconoclastic Thorstein Veblen. Writers and statesmen he attacks for their ignorance of science, scientists for their ignorance of social matters. In addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics...
HARVARD SYRACUSE Carter, f.b. f.b., Vail Lawler, r.w. r.f., Defurio Pugh, r.c. r.c., Devlin Whitney, l.c. l.c., Stern Earling, l.w. l.w., Kennedy Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Boylie Boyd, h.b., h.b., Guy Straus, 1f. 1f., Hogben White, 1f. 1f., Elowits Morre, 1f. 1f., Hyatt Wheeler, 2f. 2f., Hollis Elmore, 2f. 2f., Hordines Carter, 3f. 3f., Morton Farris, 3f. 3f., Ludi Potter, 3f. 3f., Gardner...