Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The chief contention of the book is the falsity of the long accepted economic theory that men are rational beings who make their decisions according to reason and what they believe to be right. For this conception the authors would substitute an explanation by blind economic forces which have brought...
Wisdom comes to Seniors by devious paths, however, and though so few would, even if they had the choice again yield the apple to Minerva, the traditional vote for Phi Beta Kappa is extremely rational. One comes to college, after all, to be educated; if the curriculum is education, why...
Thus if you are akin to those who seek a "moral" in poetry and must squeeze a "philosophy" out of essays, you can obtain very satisfactory doctrine for a true liberal in the present day. And his doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited...
The real thing for the student is the life and environment that surrounds him. All that he really learns he learns, in a sense, by the active operation of his own intellect and not as the passive recipient of lectures. And for this active operation what he needs most is...
"Charlie Moran, the coach, has been a player, official, coach and ardent student of the game for more than 20 years, and is working along sound and rational lines. He is bringing into play all of the better football that he has seen over a long number of years.