Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"In our rational and sophisticated age, the devil and hell have become very complicated. The true faith is capitalism. Its priests are lawyers and economists. The devil consists of an abstract man called a demagogue." Last year's defeat of Supreme Court reorganization constituted "a way of taking away...
What the Student Union can gain, and what it can give to the student body, is a sound working knowledge of democratic procedure, rational debate, and intelligent compromise. It has made a praiseworthy effort to recruit men from all schools of thought, but the crucial test is whether it will...
There is no necessity to cheapen the cause by serialized articles on "Was Kindergarten Worth While?" but to the dignity of a rational report should be added some common denominator which will draw the sympathy and understanding of the taxpayers who ultimately must endorse any major scholarship program. The public...
Things have come to a pretty pass when a large noise, prowling the streets, can lure susceptible students from their labors to fill them with Propaganda and Prejudice, while last night the more rational appeal of public placards should go unheeded. Turn back, turn back, Oh Time in thy flight...
In stressing the influence of symbols Arnold does not, as has been claimed, fail to see the enormous strides men have made through rational thinking. He realizes that the progress of physical science has been aided by the existence of a symbol like "men in white" which, in conflicts between...