Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although currently a very touchy subject among Washington legislators, old-age pensions--and particularly the Townsend Plan--have become a very real factor in the national political arena. Dynamite because of the emotional fervor of its followers, the aged Californian's celebrated brain-child has caused, and is still causing, many a headache. An investigation into the politics played in the last congressional election is still making headlines today, and although it is doubtless too much to expect that any really objective wisdom can be shown in such an atmosphere, one nevertheless hopes that before long Congress will evolve...
Politics at Harvard stops at the water's edge, which, of course, is another way of saying that it has never become an issue of really fundamental importance. Nevertheless, every now and then in the past a group of would-be politicos has aroused so much interest in the subject that certain fundamental weaknesses have come to light. And now the Student Council, sitting in judgement on itself, has decided that its procedure in the past has been in general correct, but that in certain important details it could be improved. So far as it goes, the report is constructive...
...impression which has been given that it would rather cut its own arm off than lose him if it were not for personal and administrative considerations, the issue clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed in this country and abroad for its sound scholarship and within the University it adequately provides instruction in that cultural curiosity, but, perhaps, necessity-"appreciation...
Some excuse can be made for the Fine Arts Department action in dismissing Feild in that it must use the University's tenure system. But Feild was unique in his attitude toward the subject which he taught, which is shown by his great popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost...
Some courses are easy and others are difficult. This is not hard to explain on impeccably logical grounds: for there are varying intricacies of subject material, and there are varying demands made by different teaching methods. But here, even as in supreme court decisions, there is a question of relativity. For when a course lies prostrate below a certain respectable minimum of simplicity, logical apologists are confounded. There is nothing to be done but to call the course a "snap...