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...master-economist . . . must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher. . . . He must understand symbols and speak in words. . . . He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future...
...royal family, and as traditional as Bushido in its programs. But once unbound by the Allies, it soon paced the campaign for a democratic Japan. Last week, to help it stay on its own feet, the Broadcasting Corp. of Japan had a new, liberal president: an unobtrusive mathematician, Kinnosuke Ogura...
Greater University. Largely because he has fought so ardently for his conception of freedom, Frank Graham has attracted to Chapel Hill one of the sprightliest, ablest faculties in the U.S., men of the caliber of Sociologist Howard Odum, Mathematician and Biographer Archibald Henderson, Playwright Paul Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university...
...seem as if the Committee's proposals for prescribed curricula are antithical to freedom. But a sound democracy can be built only on an informal and intelligent electorate, and specialism does not dispose to political sophistication. A mathematician can be victimized by a Huey Long, whereas, as William James said, an educated person knows a good man when he sees...
...Schillinger "scientific method" of composition, Shaw said, had its beginning in the teachings of the Greek philosopher-mathematician Pythagoras and of Johann