Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this majority voted for a rider which opposed both a moral embargo on Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral--an apparently paradoxical stand. Yet this stand is not a unique paradox it represents a fundamental dualism in the thinking of American liberals. These people idealistically believe in morality in international relations; but they are aware of the fact that Realpolitik, not Christian brotherhood, governs the world today...
...final resolution also included a condemnation of attempts to drag the United States into war, implemented by a second proposal specifying allegedly Unneutral acts. The anti-aggression stand was put forth by Jack M. Perlman '40 along with an appeal for neutrality. The added clause on unneutral acts was sponsored by Paul Olum '40, vice-president of the Union...
...information handed out by the tutoring schools, however plentiful, however zealously inculcated, strips down to a warped skeleton of data which is only vaguely related to the essence of a college course. When the fatal hour strikes, the cram-stand scholar will find that, in return for his purchasing power, he has a head-bursting mass of detail. When he is asked to demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then...
...illness, other activities. To him the University-sponsored Supervising Bureau offers cheaper and more efficient help; and even those who get a vicarious thrill out of "intellectual brothels" should succumb to the argument of a fuller purse and higher grades. As far as all other men are concerned, they stand only to lose by the garblings and the false emphases and the generally confusing misinterpretations of Square authoring. It offers a good which is at best unreliable, and which is much more than likely dangerous...
Preceding the announcement of the University's stand the Teachers' Union yesterday sent a resolution to Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, deploring the ban as a departure from a civil liberties tradition. The Union urged a reversal of the Corporation's original decision...