Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Thank you very much for publishing my letter of recent date in your "worthy" magazine. I consider it a great compliment, but would appreciate your reply as to your reason for labeling it as "Humbug" and for leaving out passages which I considered essential toward bringing out my point. My opinions are always subject to correction, and if there is any suggestion you have to offer as to why they are faulty, I shall be very grateful to you. Can you furnish any sound reason as to why I should embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence...
...gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True, this flood seemed to be worse than usual. Later on, perhaps, they might have to fight day and night against the waters as they had fought against them before...
...National Industrial Council, at its Conference Board meeting in Manhattan: "The business forecaster who attempts to predict the business outlook for the rest of this year and for 1928 is up against it, if he relies upon most of the current and fashionable methods [of prognosticating]. For some reason the old medicine no longer works. . . . There may be a slight further recession in business for a short time, but it is likely to end in a real business boom, rather than in a genuine depression...
...most cases this undergraduate suspicion is well founded. But there is another reason for presidential isolation. Modern four-button, Ide collar undergraduates are more sophisticated than they were in the heyday of the turtlenecked sweater. They are finicky about their friends. They would be standoffish should any president seek to backslap and fraternize. Often they are best left to their self-sufficient devices. "Perhaps," said a jokester, "only fools rush in where Angells fear to tread...
Everything that Brisbane said is true but still there are many people in this country who believe that Harvard had a good reason for rejecting the offer. They felt that there was something behind the refusal. And these prophets were correct, for now the truth of the whole incident is made public. It seems that Dr. Mears had added one condition to his offer. The stipulation was that the money should be used at all times for instruction in accordance with his own teachings. Harvard did not care to have its hands tied for years to come, and so rightly...