Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hutchins of the University of Chicago wants to revive the scholarship of ancient Rome and Athens. In the current "Harper's" he takes sharp issue with Mr. Conant, and offers as the ideal General Education the study of rhetoric, logic, mathematics and the classic books. The President is headed in the right direction, but he is on the wrong road...
Correctly he says that an education should sharpen the wits and discipline reasoning. Good intellectual habits are established by studying logic and mathematics, but the same mental exercises come from a workout with other and more valuable subjects. Chemistry and Physics train the mind exactly as do abstract problems, and they in themselves are useful to know. As Mr. Conant stated at the Tercentenary, colleges must find "the modern equivalent of the older educational disciplines...
...vote on impression--snap judgment. Other millions, more mature, vote on a combination of prejudice and reason. It cannot be denied that men, trained to think and observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place of blind and spiteful off-hand judgment...
...American Legion was founded ostensibly to foster patriotism, and to continue to serve the country in peace as in war. Since the war, the Legion has demanded a bonus for their war services, based on what logic it is difficult to see. They forced payment of that bonus years before it was due. Now they are pressing on to demand pensions for every member, and for their families, no matter when required. Beside these mammoth treasury raids, unhesitatingly made in times of severe economic distress, the petty steals in disability pensions which produced such paradoxes as football players drawing total...
...anything, then the amateur teams must play in their own league, Professional teams, or those who claim they are amateurs but are really pro or semi-pro, should openly confess that they hire players. Games could then he played in a professional league. "For God's sake, a little logic." is the parting pies...