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...implications of the new situation for the Medical School," Dean Burwell said. "AT the meeting of the Administrative Board in September of 1939 the policy of the School was outlined tentatively as follows: to play an effective part in the defense program of the United States and to maintain insofar as possible the standards of teaching and research in the Medical School...
...Insofar as American publishers are not journalists only a few of them are they would help their cause greatly by keeping their noses in their business and leaving it up to their editors to take stand on political issues. This policy has been successfully followed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; it was traditional on some of the best papers of pre-Hitler Europe. It bolsters newspapermen's morale by giving them their say in the paper's policy, and rises the status of editorial writers from stooges to thinking human begins. However, it is likely to throw the publishers...
...concrete terms this means that classics professors will lecture on "Virgil and the Present World Crisis," chemists and physicists on "Science and the War," and so on; even the most remote of the ivory-tower dwellers will indulge in a daily, dish of "realism." Insofar as educators give up their customary profound preoccupation with the meaningless and esoteric, such a change can only be accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages...
...other groups, is right in assuming that we were mistaken in entering the last war and that a German victory in Europe will not endanger our national existence, then the policy of strict neutrality is justified. But until those two propositions are proved, such a policy represents blind vanity, insofar as it assumes the general stupidity of our fathers, and dangerous shortsightedness, insofar as it fails to anticipate the repercussions of a Nazi victory in Europe. Charles O. Porter...
...letter to Dean Hanford. Captain John T. Nelson. U.S.N.R., said that there are many vacancies in the Supply Corps which the Navy hopes to fill "insofar as practicable with college graduates of high calibre who have demonstrated their abilities by passing successfully a probationary period...