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...Wood may make reply that his definitions are valid--are absolute--because his views are at present in general agreement with those of the majority of the American people, whose views, by democratic principle, must be accepted as sovereign. But he asks, in accordance with this self-asserted divinity, that opposition (such as the HSU) be eliminated--as "termites". After which painless extermination it is hard to see how the free discussion essential to democracy would exist. On what basis could Franklin D. Roosevelt or William M. Wood claim then to represent the beliefs of a majority of the people...
...people on relief at $1.50 per person per year. Cosecheros (Argentina's Okies) pour in to work in the fields, but less than one-fourth of them find work. Company-store prices are double to treble the prices at ordinary stores, and the cosecheros are paid in bonos, valid only at these stores...
...colostrum test is valid as early as two weeks after conception. This trigger-quickness is bested only by the ten-day interval of the Friedman rabbit test...
This criticism sounds reasonable at first, but it is not a wholly valid one. To begin with, it is absolutely necessary to teach a lot of theory. Sociology is complex; it cannot be boiled down to a few hypotheses; it cannot be simplified. Harvard does not intend to train its students to go into social work as a vocation, but to give them a background which can be used in teaching, politics, business, or any other occupation. Surely there is nothing more practical than this. The usual, supposition is that theory is entirely impractical, and herein lies the flaw...
...instruction would consequently be impaired. The criticism dealing with tutorial follows from this, as non-Faculty men do the bulk of the tutorial work. The third criticism also is bound up in the plan of having each department take care of its own ten percent cut, and would be valid only in the departments which happened to be affected. But a graduated salary slice, the Union feels, would actually be a better and more reasonable safeguard of Harvard's long-range aims than preservation of the status...