Word: theorist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...free to ignore or defy considerations of partisan expediency. .... The chairman, Professor Taussig is one of the most distinguished tariff authorities in the world, and is far and away the most eminent tariff authority in the United States. Seekers after exorbitant tariff favors will revile Professor Taussig as a theorist. He is a theorist who will very clearly see through the greedy devices by which greedy interests have hitherto sought to delude Congress. He is also a practical man who knows the details of tariff making here and abroad, and is excellently qualified to fit our tariff into the system...
...Craig is eternally young in the part of the Professor's wife. She has all the skill of long experience and much of the bloom of youth. Frederick Eric does well as the theorist, reminding Cambridge auditors of many friends of the lecture platform. In the part of Dr. May, Harvey Hawley is consistently clever and nimble...
...country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement or reputation. Doubtless those who like the old way of tariff-making--a compromise among selfish interests--would call him a "theorist." So he is; so any student of so intricate a subject must be. And his knowledge of theory qualifies him all the more to treat the subject broadly, with due regard to national needs. It makes little difference what precise place he occupies in the long range of opinion from...
...Butler '16, "The Hohenzollern candidacy for the throne of Spain"; S. K. Fairbanks '17, Blake's theories of art as applied to his writings"; W. Goettling '16, "The outcome of government regulation with particular references to prices and railway rates"; W. E. McCurdy '16, "Taine as an historical theorist"; K. B. Murdock '16, "Notes on 'L'Ancien Regime' and 'L'Anarchie' of Taine's Origines de la France Contemporaire'"; and A. S. Potter '17, "Democracy and culture...
Until 2 o'clock on November 13th, the Yale football team as such was universally considered non est. Before that moment the Elis had made a decidedly unenviable record. Woefully disorganized and four times defeated, they had served as little more than playthings in a theorist's football laboratory. Hinkey had not made good...