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Cried Isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark: "Outrageous proposition . . . senile, reactionary president of Columbia . . . pothouse Republican politician." On the Columbia campus, meanwhile, eight professors (including Anthropologist Franz Boas, Economist Wesley Mitchell, Sociologist Robert Lynd, Chemist Harold Urey) asked their president to clarify his views on their freedom...
...even the most remote of the ivory-tower dwellers will indulge in a daily, dish of "realism." Insofar as educators give up their customary profound preoccupation with the meaningless and esoteric, such a change can only be accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages the acquisition of knowledge as a guide for that action. That is precisely the effect which this war seems likely to have on scholarship at Harvard...
...topic of technique analysis the Conference will hear from Stuart Chase and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynd, authors of wide reputation. In his "Tyranny of Words" Chase makes a thorough analysis of semantics and the meaning of economic jargon, while in their Middle town series the Lynds present a cultural cross-section of a typical American town...
...morning's session will conclude with a series of speeches, describing technique analysis. I. A. Richards and Stuart Chase will discuss semantics; and Claude Robinson, poll technique. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, co-authors of "Middletown in Transition," will make the final addresses...
Several authorities from the political and academic worlds have been invited. Among them are: Leonard Doob. professor of Psychology at Yale; Stuart Chase; I. A. Richards, head of Magdalen College at Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, authors of "Middletown in Transition"; Alan Dudley, representative of the British Broadcasting System in New York; Professor Hans Kohn from Smith and Frederick L. Schuman from Williams...