Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like love-passion and hate-passion, peace-passion and war-passion are first cousins. Not accidental was it that Socialists who for years claimed almost a patent on peace propaganda were last week the subject of investigation when the Department of Justice began to check up in San Francisco and Manhattan on the enrollment of volunteers to fight with the Loyalists in Spain. Not accidental is it that bills for "taking the profits out of war,* backed by many peace lovers in Congress, also provide for mobilizing practically all the resources...
...hardly likely to carry much weight. The Justices of the Supreme Court have the Preamble and Article I of the Constitution already by heart. The Court long ago declared that the Preamble was only a declaration of pious hope conferring no power on the Federal Government. Furthermore, the particular subject matter, NRA, on which the President made his appeal, happened to be the one major New Deal project which no member of the Court, liberal or conservative, found constitutional. Thus the likelihood of a reversal is negligible...
...tackling a controversial subject which has long been sidestepped, the Council merits praise for a certain degree of courage, and in placing comprehensive data before University Hall, it is rendering an important service. But when it attempts to answer the question it raised--what should be done about it--the Council put itself into a hole. Very little can be done about it. On the one hand there is the traditional freedom which Harvard gives its students to study or not to study, and thus to educate themselves. On the other is the undeniable fact that this freedom is abused...
...setting a "critical grade" between the promising and the less promising, President Conant said that subject matter is of little importance, the examination level and the intrinsic capacity of the student, whose intellectual places in the world are predestined at least by the time they enter college, being the significant factors. The only important requisites of a liberal education, in addition to good teaching which brings out the intellectual capacity of each student, are concentration in a limited field as opposed to smatterings of information, and a stimulating atmosphere which promotes discussion between men of different departments...
...self-indulgent side of any individual student's nature, a moment of consideration, must convince him of their validity. Stiff examinations, after all, help a man to measure his strength if he so desires, and to no other purpose can he conscientiously profess. Exhaustive inquiry into a single subject, moreover, is far and away superior to peering cautiously into a great many questions, only to scuttle away as soon as they begin to look difficult or exacting...