Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edwin H. Cohn became the first scientist ever to hold a University Professorship when President Conant announced his appointment last night. The post is one of the four top professorships at Harvard...
...Poet Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
Books v. Convertibles. Stoke wasted no time. As some students sized him up, he was a friendly, mild-mannered political scientist, still youthful and brisk at 44, whose idea of a good time was to sit down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect...
...middle-of-the-roader, Lecomte de Noüy, who was a brilliant scientist, adduced scientific proof that human life cannot have begun spontaneously, that there must be a Supreme Being. Since this evidence points to His being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...
...political scientist found himself faced by a four-man board of interrogators, drawn from the Economics and Government departments, after his 40-minute unprepared speech. Tempers sometimes flared as Professors William Y. Elliott, Wassily W. Leontief, Samuel Beer, and Seymour E. Harris alternately attacked and supported his views...