Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mathematics is dull and hard. Logic is dull and relatively easy. A little concentration before April Hours and finals will bring the average student through safely and without too much trouble. The person who enjoys having his head stuffed with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...situation which, had it occurred in any other week, would have been relatively unimportant. As it was, Conservative Mr. Ritchie found himself in the same boat with Conservative Mr. Hoover, whom he had often criticized. So completely had a nation-wide fog of emotion obliterated the channels of logic that the tabloid New York Daily News observed: "Our own notion is that it is another chapter in the world-old story of the fight between the Haves and the Havenots. We think the plebeians and the patricians, the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, the nobles and the sans-culottes...
...spite of this adamantine logic favoring the scheme, there is a danger that inter-house debating, like so many good and moral things, may be too delicate a flower for the harsh breath of existence, and so fall and wither away from lack of strength. The one iron and strychnine tonic to prevent this disaster is Interest. To quicken interest there is one sure formula, to capture fancy in the topic for debate. If the sponsors of the innovation act wisely, they will not choose exotic and ephemeral topics for their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate...
...this merely means that the administration will some day have to answer criticism with facts or with cold logic in defense of its position. Otherwise the attack will grow more intense and will be reflected in Congressional opposition. Members of Congress in particular are looking for new leadership always. They move with the tides of public opinion, and public opinion in turn is affected by the debates on issues such as have been raised by opponents of monetary confusion...
...artist's inspiration with religion, which is sound enough, and recognizes that Communism is a religion, which is unimpeachable. That he commits a number of fallacies in his eloquence does not in the least detract from his effect, for all such theses as his, both pro and con, transcend logic and are not subject to it. Still, the history in his penultimate paragraph is flatly wrong, and it is silly to say that a capitalist artist must cut himself off from the principles of true art. True art is my art; it must be your art that is false...