Word: logics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a gold mine for perspicacious scholars and philologists. In it, for the first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...
Admittedly, the classics have taken more than their share of blows ever the last few years, but logic, one of the classical virtues, can hardly defend the present system. Even Professor Rand, our own Matthew Arnold, would admit that. And an examination in their Latin given at the end of the college course might discourage even the most persistent advocate of this new Caesarism...
Official recognition should be given to constitutional history, which forms the canvas on which the legal picture is painted, and to Latin, mathematics, science and logic, which make for mental discipline. If such courses were advertised as advisable for law school, less time would be wasted in "social sciences", which lawyers meet all the rest of their lives in practice, and the student would have a firmer foundation on which to build. Furthermore, a system of admission based on legal aptitude tests as well as on college records might well be adopted. Thus the selection of better trained men could...
...accepted by the house authorities. Such a movement would have the effect of clearing up much of the present ambiguity in regard to the selection of houses by freshmen and, would offer these men a definite means of choosing their future residence with some degree of surety and logic. As it is at present, the freshmen know practically nothing about the various houses. They are seldom able to inspect more than one or two, and often prefer to make their choice on the basis of contacts with friends rather than with regard to tutorial facilities or curricular advantages. In view...
...mechanical reforms suggested in the book may or may not be necessary or desirable. Dr. Hutchins has quibbles with the present examination methods and the close association of research fact-finding and the professors; but whatever qualms we may have with these details, we wholly succumb to the relentless logic of his central theme. We thoroughly agree with his simple statement: "All that can be learned in a university is the general principles, the fundamental propositions, the theory of any discipline...