Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Censorship has recently been discussed more actively than usual and resentment against it has been more or less pronounced. There has been a general feeling that somehow vaguely it infringes upon the rights of individuals...
...sound economic principles upon which every vast, business or industrial unit has been established is to receive profits commensurate with the value of the goods dispensed. Whether or not those goods are material, physical, or intellectual, a fair evaluation ought at all times to be determined if returns are to be considered. In spite of momentary fluctuations, therefore, the price scale retains a comparatively even level...
...estimate the value of his goods, is the task of each individual producer, a task upon which to no small degree his future, may depend. In accordance with this principle, Harvard is not to be denied the right of establishing whatever tuition fee may seem reasonable. Presumably the current income is calculated to defray merely the yearly running expenses of the institution...
...however, to increase the fee exacted for additional courses, focuses attention on the underlying reason for the incidental source of income. The fee comes as a natural consequence in the case of a student desiring more courses than are ordinarily allowed under present tuition rates; on the other hand upon the conscientious man who prefers to enlist his efforts in bearing the brunt of concentration during his early college career, the fee falls with undue severity. No well defined arguments can be conceived to support a scheme which makes the price of the same education more expensive for one student...
...better, for the supply of possible candidates for such a place is strictly limited as the difficulty of annually finding men for the Norton chair has shown. And it is only through a somewhat continuous exertion of their influence that even the greatest of men may make their mark upon any intellectual community...