Word: logics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Logic" Caution...
While it probably is more valuable for most of you to learn some thing about the great philosophers and their beliefs during your brief glimpse of the field, an individual subject, such as logic which Philosophy 1 discusses, may interest you. It lays the foundation for a new method of thinking, which always has merit. Unfortunately, if you are taking History 1, you will be unable to take this course since the hours conflict...
There are three lectures a week in this half-course given in the second half of the year. Under Professor Prall last year, logic received a conscientious and interesting treatment. But while he knew thoroughly what he wanted to express, he ran into the difficulty which most philosophers meet, an inability to give a coherent picture to the class. For most men however, he succeeded in laying the foundation. This year Professor Dennes of the University of California, who is reported to be a fine teacher will conduct the course, and he may correct this one difficulty...
...regards the NRA, Mr. Thomas called it a failure, stating that more were out of work in October, 1934 than in the preceding year. He declared that the logic of events would cause us to believe in government regulations of unions...
...loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would be meaningless to him." To D. H. Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however: in a hundred years...