Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With each successive publication of the official announcement of courses of instruction offered by the faculty of arts and sciences is one impressed with the readily apparent lack of logic and systematic compilation that characterizes its pages. Tradition and the addition of new courses each year are probably responsible for this confused and illogical arrangement, but it is time that sweeping changes be made if the announcement is to be a useful and intelligible guide for students...
...Deal, is open to criticism--we insist upon it. But then, too, criticism, i.c., acceptable criticism must have a foundation of fact. We must be able to substantiate our opinions. A mere statement of opinion does not guarantee its right of existence as such, but it must be logical in itself and logical in its assumptions. For instance, the author in question says: "The Administration's Federal Relief system is an instance of a two sided affair." And he goes directly on to talk about charity and ethics, while we wait patiently but in vain for an exposition...
Nothing could have surprised Minister Saavedra Lamas more than what happened next. Far from sympathetic, the Argentine Press turned savagely on him. La Prensa ridiculed the logic as well as the law for such a suit as he proposed: "No reputation has suffered. . . . On the other hand, an important advance has been made in exposing one of the chief factors which leads to the crime...
...would take two hours to eat a meal. And with no logic at all would he shriek, sob, laugh...
When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...