Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is not bound by the old prejudice that education should be founded primarily on a study of the Classics. Instead, this newspaper is typically American in its blind attachment to the prejudices of its readers. It echoes the modern glorification of the social sciences as the only valid approach to the problems of our day--an attitude which seems ridiculous to a person who has any remote interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics as "a dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit...
...have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being caught moralizing. But their logic is valid, and powerful inhibitions force them to write as they do, or to destroy the poems they sometimes write that echo an earlier period. They are specialized, but so is every other department of the modern world. Technically, the best of them are capable of writing grand, ruminating lines like Byron...
...Mink" is notorious George Mink, alias Minkoff, who, according to the U. S. State Department, has a valid U. S. passport. He worked for Yellow Cab Co. in Philadelphia from 1928 until 1933. A Philadelphia cabby who had then known him said last week: "'The Mink' was a Red, all right! He was always startin' arguments, and they were so silly you'd get all burned up and lose your head. He hasn't got the brains of a flea! He won't kill nobody...
...both sports is about the same. Yet of the two only the wrestling team has a coach. The present objection to having a coach seems to be that the Gymnastic Association is not on a paying basis, and that more expense is not warranted. Is this reason more valid for this branch of sport than for the wrestling, which also yields a deficit annually? Besides, the gymnastic associations do not pay in the colleges where they have coaches. With good gymnastic teams, furthermore, the added expense of a coach would be justified by the increased interest we may expect...
...Supreme Court fight, concerning a question on which there was ample room for valid difference of opinion, was lost in the ordinarily self-willed Senate. It was of the greatest significance that last week's battle was lost in a chamber normally more amenable to Administrative wishes...