Word: sheffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hemenway Gymnasium does for the body. And both forms of exercise are equally exciting. The course consists of parroting a number of logical rules-of-thumb by which the valid may be distinguished from the fallacious with as little thought as possible. At the beginning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied his students with a multigraphed outline of these rules, by memorizing which the more receptive of his students received passing grades in the final examination, which was highly logical of them and showed that they had not taken his course in vain...
...Sheffer '05 has been announced as the speaker at the Philosophical Club meeting to be held tomorrow in Emerson 23 at 4 o'clock. Dr. Sheffer will talk on "The Nature of Hypothesis...
...cannot help feeling also that much injustice is done Dr. Sheffer in the criticism of Philosophy 1. If there is anything he tries to avoid in this course it is the "parrcting a number of logical rules-of-thumb" for which you so harshly condemn him. If any one doubts this let him compare the texts used in Philosophy 1 with the treatises on "formal logic" used in most college courses in logic. Let him also read some of the final examinations which Dr. Sheffer has set in his course in which no rules of logic, no technical knowledge...
...President and Fellows of the College. He will take office in September. Professor Frederick Jackson Turner was appointed a professor emeritus of history, his appointment to take effect in September, 1924. Professor Turner has been a professor of history at the University since 1910. Dr. Henry Maurice Sheffer '06, lecturer on Philosophy, was re-appointed for three years...
...Edwin A. Shaw, Education; Roy K. Hack, Classics; F. W. C. Lieder, German; W. P. Gerrish, Mechanical Engineering; and Edward S. King, Astronomy. As faculty instructors: F. S. Cawley '10, German; Norris F. Hall '14, Chemistry; Elmer R. Schaeffer '13, Physics; Melville C. Whipple, Sanitary Chemistry. Mr. Henry M. Sheffer '05 has been reappointed lecturer on philosophy and a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...