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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although actual selection of students will probably be left to individual departments, it was learned last night that the present proposal would rule out all students except those in regularly organized foreign study groups...
There is no present machinery for granting European study credit...
...Students Association for the Natural and Social Sciences will present Phillipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, Richard von Mises. McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics, and Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, in its tenth and final meeting of the year at 8 p.m. tonight in Hunt Hall...
Frank and von Mises will present and defend the "Positivist" system of philosophy, and Williams will take the opposition. "Positivism" is a scientific philosophy...
Today, midway in a bloodier, more dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...