Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there idle land here? Main reason is lack of a railroad. U. S. Highway 40 crosses this basin. Two daily stages, Denver-Salt Lake, in summer; one in winter. There is a place for ambitious farmers here...
...said, there is no reason why this should continue if both sides make efforts to understand each other, and he suggested placing students in local homes to live as a means to this, praising Hitler for making students in Germany live with poor families...
...test of only an hour's length, it is the man who can reason the quickest and have the subject at the tips of his fingers who will come our on top. Yet this places a high premium on one type of student, and explains why so many people with thoroughness rather than equickness, originality rather than powers of memory, do not have a chance to show their ability in an hour exam. But given an essay to prepare outside of class, all the various talents of each individual manifest themselves; initiative in research, originality in approach, clarity of organization...
Harvard's group must turn elsewhere for its reason for existence. One important function is the production of undergraduate plays; but lacking suitable ones, it still serves a purpose by staging other unusual or interesting works which might otherwise go unproduced. A second function is actual experience, otherwise unavailable at Harvard, in acting, producing, and stage setting. A final and not most unimportant purpose, according to Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is recreation--dramatics for the love...
Speaking in a soft, expressive voice, and gesticulating freely but not dramatically, small, white-haired Dean Matthews went on to explain away rationalism. Predicating his remarks with a defense of free thought, he declared that even the rationalist, who would place all faith on his own reason, was subject to the laws of probability, for human reason may not lead to truth,--may be based on false hypotheses. Moreover, some attitude must be taken toward life, for we must live; and of the several alternatives religious faith is by far the most satisfying...