Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Booth traced the history of the Jows, and development of thought about its interpretation from the Middle Ages to the present day. He stated that "we should reject any 'Old Testament' concept of authority which binds our minds...
...Harvard medical tradition, but making a very definite contribution to the advancement of the practice in America. For while the proposals for the increased endowment of the art of healing by government for the benefit of the population do not represent anything new in the way of medical thought, the realization that immediate steps are needed to improve the condition of the "medically indigent" in the community demands that steps be taken...
...poor, and also for further state endowment of medical education and research, is so eminently sound in the way the committee of doctors has presented it, is because, unlike so many governmental extensions today, it looks for the use of existing agencies to carry out the program. Though the thought of a paternalistic federal bureaucracy dealing out the loaves and fishes to favored medical organizations in the future is enough to conjure up the doubts of even the most fervent believers in governmental encroachment, there is no need for such fear. The proposals provide that governmental moneys advanced should, first...
...gathered specialists who not only teach but also practice their calling. The student has the rare privilege of learning the history of this oldest living democracy from such men as Morison, Schlesinger and Buck, of reading its literature under Matthiessen, Murdock, and Jones, and of studying its changing thought under Perry and Hocking, themselves able philosophers. So far as pure academic knowledge goes, other fields are equally well covered; but their contributions to the student are infinitely smaller...
Looking at the situations inside the map of Europe, Mr. Wells thought that Germany, Italy, and Japan must all have "strong liberal elements," although pretty well submerged at the present moment. He was inclined to believe that Russia had more solidity of opinion than the other three countries...