Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them not to; today such luxury cannot be afforded. The question on application blanks for every institution in the country--Why do you want to go to college?"--has at last become a question which every student must honestly face and for which every student must have a valid answer...
...those qualities of the poet on English poetry from his day to our own. In the first essay of the book he says: "It was Dryden who for the first time, and as far as we are concerned, for all time, established a normal English speech, a speech valid for both verse and prose, and imposing its laws which greater poetry than Dryden's might violate, but which no poetry since has overthrown." This statement covers both of Mr. Eliot's main points, and what he says in the rest of the book illustrates, but does...
Aside from the injustice to those who support educational institutions, the private patenting of scientific and medical discoveries has been criticized on another valid ground. Achievement in this line are almost invariably the result of years of study by many different researchers, working often far separated in locality and time. Scientists pool their knowledge, publishing freely the steps of their progress. The one among them, therefore, who supplies the culminating factor in a great discovery is luckier, but not necessarily more worthy of credit, than all the rest...
...make people pious by university compulsion--a ludicrous idea for even a professor to be supposed to hold. What I was really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated who does not understand both that religion, like science and art, is a racially valid technic for the discovery of truth, and also something of what that technic involves. Even an undergraduate journalist ought, it seems to me, to have been able to see that the two contentions are quite distinct...
...along wet rocks, the Martin Johnsons' phonograph playing jazz. There is little pretense of danger. Audiences still shift in their seats when two tons of horny rhinoceros rush at the camera, but the statistical safety of the man or woman with the gun makes the thrill meretricious. More valid is the leisurely charm of the studies of the pygmies, the hippopotamuses, the waterhole. Five minutes of rare comedy are developed from nothing but two pygmies' attempt to light a cigar. Probably anyone with the fare could have taken a sound camera along the main highways of African hunting...