Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It has become a battle of principles which few foresaw two years ago. Both sides are trying to solve a complex problem by sweeping generalizations. The Negro as a person and the varying local situations are no longer considered in rational terms by most southerners, regardless of their color. They...
The same disregard for the values of intellectual discipline marks its criticisms of undergraduate organizations. The CRIMSON according to i.e., need only serve as "an outlet for energies and the expression of a point of view." Most Crimeds, however, feel that, beside blowing off steam, they are developing an intellectual...
If i.e had put its few good suggestions in a more rational fashion, not identifying the problem of existence with the whole existing order, it might have gained itself a more receptive audience. Many of its criticisms, wild as they are, contain a certain element of truth. The value of...
The notion that anything useful is accomplished by providing a large amount of leisure for the inferior man is probably full of folly. He invariably spends it foolishly. The five-day week is humane, and all rational men have supported it, but it would be silly to say that it...
Often forgotten, however, is Freud's self-analysis, his unique personal triumph, the achievement which made psychoanalysis possible. The courage it must have taken to set out on the first exploration of the unconscious and repressed is an example any academic community could follow proudly. It is for this, above...