Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidates for a degree in Philosophy must pass three three-hour examinations: one on Systematic Philosophy, for which the concentrator chooses as his special field either Metaphysics, Ethics, or Logic, and relates it to at least one of the other two; and two on the history of Philosophy, one ancient and one modern...
Philosophy 1, on logic, is the logical course to precede most of the advance courses. It is open to Freshmen with the consent of the instructor, but is not recommended unless they are fairly sure they are going to concentrate in Philosophy and are willing to pluage into a new field without the acclimatization of course B. Although Quine lectures very swiftly the work is not hard once it is within the student's grasp...
...their poems have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being caught moralizing. But their logic is valid, and powerful inhibitions force them to write as they do, or to destroy the poems they sometimes write that echo an earlier period. They are specialized, but so is every other department of the modern world. Technically, the best of them are capable of writing grand, ruminating lines...
...Arthur Morgan: "I was shocked beyond expression and suffered untold agony of heart when gradually I began to see that he [Chairman Morgan] was moved by an intense jealousy against some of his associates on the Board, and that his jealousy has led him beyond reason and beyond logic. When jealousy, that green-eyed monster, obtains possession of the human heart, it is not long until it has control of the human intellect, the human mind...
...More than once a faculty member has left here to make a celebrated name for himself at some other institution, and more than once Harvard has tried to get him back. Buying back as professors those who should have been allowed to develop here from instructors is not good logic...