Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sentimentalists may sigh upon inspecting the Announcement of Courses for 1935-36, which has just been released. The Department of English has actually challenged the Medieval picturesqueness of the prevailing arrangement and has substituted clarity and logic. Many sensitive heartstrings may quiver at the thought of corrupting English 2 into English 22; to some the progression from the Anglo-Saxon of 3a through the Elizabethan of 32 and the Alexandrian of 50b to the Georgian of 26 may spell abracadabra. Nevertheless, hoary-headed tradition must retire to its armchair when faced with a definite improvement...
...several excellent arguments to prove the value of a knowledge of Latin; the second propounds sonorous platitudes concerning "the badge of culture" and "the heritage of the ages." Since sentimentalists, concerned always with preserving some golden age that has had its existence only in their imaginations, are impervious to logic, supporters of Mr. Conant's proposal must turn their attention to the sincere students of the Classics...
Will the men of Harvard be blind to the logic of Professor Copeland and the embattled goodies? Let them arise in their strength and smite the new-fangled and the plebeian. Let the Kirkland House matron query in a still, small voice. "What, O Harvard, is my rightful name?" And let a chorus of ten thousand throats cry: "GOODY...
...rigid set of dogma is to be adopted as orthodox, heresies of every description should be permitted and even encouraged. Until all faith in liberal institutions has been destroyed one can believe that, especially in an intelligent university community, pernicious or fantastic doctrines will succumb to the force of logic. Certainly well defended views need not fear attack...
Heralded as a reply to the innovations at the Yale Law School. Dean Pound's annual report fails to stress sufficiently the fundamental issue which challenges law schools all over the country, namely, whether or not the theory that judgment is a matter of purely legal logic, upon which most of our law training is based, has outlived its usefulness...