Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kind of Ignorance. Alarmed at the Catholic tendency to judge a work of art according to prurient standards of "decency," says Kerr, professional critics tend to take an unreasoning position against any form of censorship; equally alarmed at this anarchic attitude, Catholics damn all critics as "artsakists" who are insensitive to sin and indifferent to its effects. Wise censorship simply means the exercise of prudence, says Kerr, but "the censor is not acting out of clear knowledge. He is acting in a kind of ignorance." And he should proceed with great caution for fear of destroying something good...
...trustbusters did not charge that the merged companies would create a monopoly; they charged merely that the bigger company "may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." Both sides were anxious for the first court test of a key legal point: just how big may business legally grow by mergers...
Another possibility is that professors could dedicate a far larger proportion of their time to tutorial work. If, as some professors feel, most lectures have little value as educational tools, it seems that they might use their time in some more fruitful way. While departmental appointments now tend to be based on need for an expert on a given subject, and thus come with an obligation to offer courses in that specialty, perhaps the need for such courses could often be met equally well by offering reading courses...
...traditionally make friends easier, traditionally make friends easier, traditionally are more tolerant of others bcause others must be more tolerant of them. An influx of grad students to the Houses would bring to undergraduates the views of more mature men, still socially accessible yet of greater experience. It would tend to obscure the distinctions between the levels of academic work, making the transition from the College to GSAS or other schools less frightening. Exchange of original ideas would tend less to be stifled by a falsely induced social incompatibility...
...secondary difficulty, at least among students in Eastern universities, has been the fact that the conscious expression of any belief which is accepted is regarded not as realism but naivete or weakness. The tough anti-systematic skeptics have so poisoned the air in our better educational institutions that credos tend to be considered as a symptom, with all the pejorative connotations of that word. But if there is no overt expression of belief, if we are indeed what Van Wyck Brooks ('08) calls "the silent generation," then the task of formulation becomes doubly difficult for the eccentric minority not adapted...