Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article by Mr. Pond, Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture, on the subject of the disposition of the new housing units finds many faults with the details of the Student Council plan, as might be expected when an authority views the suggestions of laymen. The objections, however, deal with the superficial aspects of the plan, and seem to find no fault with the report's basic idea of a more or less cloistered second Yard...
...violent moral effort, when the cause that produced it is removed, is succeeded by moral lassitude and therewith a turning of attention into very different channels. That this revulsion of spirit should be expected to follow peace is now recognized by those who have thought about the subject." It would appear to a judicial observer that the laxity of enforcement is itself one of the numerous results of this moral lassitude...
Prohibition, on the other hand, has not been the product of war hatreds. There is, therefore, not likely to be any such revulsion of feeling as occurred on the subject of reconstruction. It is to be hoped that the question will be ultimately decided not on the basis of feeling but on the basis of an intellectual understanding of the problem and a judicious weighing of the advantages and disadvantages of various attempts to control what all fair minded persons acknowledge to be at the present time a great evil. Every civilized country is trying by one method or another...
...following article, written by William Leonard Langer '15, assistant professor in the Department of History, the writer discusses Mussolini and the revolt against liberalism, a subject on which he recently spoke before the Massachusetts League of Women Voters...
...would American life be without the questionnaire? It testifies at once to the intellectual curiosity of the inquirer, to his industry and to the imputed zeal of the public. It is made to be answered. Presumably it is answered or the stream of questions would not flow around every subject under Heaven. The good obey meekly each request to deliver their minds and never grumble about the postage. There should be a questionnaire on "Who invented the questionnaire?" If detected, his birthday should be a national holiday. He has given us a precious "institution...