Word: laski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Laski has pointed out that the chief significance of Mr. Roosevelt's administration is that it represents the first great attempt to achieve fundamental social reform with parliamentary methods. Since Mr. Harold Laski has already said that fundamental social reform could not be accomplished by parliamentary methods, because "fundamental social reform" means public ownership, he obviously regards the attempt as part of the pathology of political science. After one year of churning and fuming, and after Mr. Johnson's conference, the measurable results are only these, that the administration has built up a large and unsanctioned machinery...
...inadequacy of the present agencies, Harvard might with expedience and point, undertake a similar experiment. The lectures, as at New York University, could be given weekly at a convenient time and place. Members of the faculty might occasionally take the stand, and such men as Harold Laski, George Soule, and Edmund Wilson could doubtless be obtained with slight trouble or cost. Dealing with the political, social, and economic difficulties which beset the world, and seizing upon undergraduate interest in such problems at its present intensity, the course should not suffer from lack of attendance. It would, to a certain extent...
...Higginson Professor of History. This is the Squire of Sparks St. the insatiable collector of this and that, the indefatigable narrator of faded stories, the herenow admirer of Oliver Cromwell. This is he who was called from Yale in 1920 to fill the eight-league boots of Mr. Harold Laski...
When three years had rolled by, and Laski had departed, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, therefore, was the natural choice for the vacancy. As expected, he dropped snugly into the atmosphere of Brattle Street. His speculation was undramatic, his sufficient works dealt with the dead past, his lectures with innocuous anecdotes and data. He became, in the course of time, a stock-holder in the Harvard Cooperative Society, and an Associate of Lowell House; he acquired the grey hair and the mien of a Bank President. He fitted; he fits; he will...
...Princeton and the chief justice of the supreme court. Mr. Hoover has, in his own accounting, halved his working hours and doubled his income, and is in a good way to recoup the losses which his public service occasioned. Strangely apropos to all this seem the words of Harold Laski in the current Harper's: "This democratic elite cannot devote itself to the acquisition of power, of wealth, of authority, for these things are fatal to independence, and their quest breeds men concerned rather with truths that hope for acceptance than with truth." Still, Castor says it is an unpleasant...