Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Educators have long faced the choice between compulsory instruction and neglected opportunity, but in its attempt to avoid either extreme, Harvard has devised a lecture system that is not worthy of its Faculty. For the excellence of a liberal arts instructor lies not so much in the scientist's ability to present accepted facts as in the power to correlate, to criticize, and to stimulate, and in its unnecessary compromise with these aims, the College has sacrificed much of its academic superiority...
...scientist is fighting . , . for five hundred, yes, for five thousand other freedoms. The freedom to work, to expand the intellect, to worry through with a theory until it is validated or disproved ... to improve, if he can, everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass...
...Arthur Chester Millspaugh, political scientist and financial adviser, is making his second effort to reform Persia's national economy (he had the same job 21 years ago). Oil is Persia's principal resource, but Persians see little of it. Persia's oilfields are principally controlled by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. The people depend on the land, and most of the under-cultivated, ill-used land belongs to the same absentee moguls who control the national finances...
Above all, he considered himself a scientist, which he was. In an era when "test pilot" was often a synonym for "daredevil," he persuaded manufacturers that the test pilot should be consulted before the plane was built. "You would not call in an architect after you had built a house," he said...
...well as his war work, and the military conversion of Harvard to a total war effort in which Conant played a major role, the article predicted that the Harvard President's name would soon come into the spotlight. "Keep an eye on Conant of Harvard," it said, "-- scientist, educator, and man of ideas worth listening...