Word: proper
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Apart from the content of courses in one department or another, the concern of the College seems to be, in general, more with technical values than with humanistic values. According to the conception which seems prevalent among students--and to some extent among the faculty--the proper function of an instructor is not to enlighten the student about matters of human matters of human significance, but instead to be an expert on more or less technical questions within a narrow field. An instructor is usually known as an expert on logical empiricism, or 20th-century Indian nationalism, or whatever...
...described as analysis itself, but the term "analysis", as applied at Harvard, has a special implication; it implies that since only certain technical questions are appropriate for analytic treatment, only these questions can seriously be considered. For example, a typical Harvard philosophy professor would consider it quite proper to analyze Wittgenstein's notion of "criteria"" for use of words but he would not find it proper to analyze Sartre's use of the word "freedom." The various areas of philosophy comprise a hierarchy of sterility, and those subjects highest in the hierarchy are most respected at Harvard. Symbolic logic...
...apartment until she died in 1959 at the age of 78, the wealthy recluse gave her paintings (among them a Goya, two Rembrandts, two Titians and a Rubens) to three U.S. museums, intended her principal assets (stocks and bonds) for her heirs. But she failed to set up the proper trusts and other tax-reducing gimmicks, and so an appraisal filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court indicates a bite of $28,175,009 to the Federal Government, $7,481,504 in state taxes...
More than ever, the little church around the corner is not just a house of worship: besides a manse, it may have a parish hall, a two-acre parking lot, a parochial school, and a few prudent investments in apartment buildings and acreage near by. In general, churches proper enjoy tax exemption on some or all of their holdings, but budget-strapped mayors and state legislatures are eyeing the things that are God's as a source of needed revenue. In Minneapolis, for example, the city assessor is trying to get $1,120 in back taxes from a bowling...
Kerr's experience in labor arbitration has left him convinced that a "blueprint" of educational policy is not the proper approach to directing a university. Instead, Kerr feels, the administrator must follow "a compromise of ideas...