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Philosophy 1: "This course in elementary logic probably does as much good for the brain as swinging Indian clubs in Hemenway Gymnasium does for the body. And both forms of exercise are equally exciting. The course consists of parroting a number of logical rules-of-thumb by which the valid may be distinguished from the fallacious with as little thought as possible. At the beginning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied his students with a multigraphed outline of these rules, by memorizing which the more receptive of his students received passing grades in the final examination, which was highly logical...
...With the fall of the Protocol statemen abandoned the League as a valid champion of the status quo and returned toward the old system of security compacts or treaties. Germany cried aloud that she needed to be protected, and offered: a) To forget Alsace, b) To guarantee the French and possibly the Polish Czecho-Slovakia frontiers (TIME, Aug. 13) in return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League...
...part is that of a lunchroom waitress brought home to preside over the stormy table of a Minnesota farmer and his son. The farmer is harsh and dominant. The son is a trifle watery. He is also her husband. She spends her evening trying to distil him into a valid beverage with which to floor the father...
TIME is frank with itself; TIME is likewise frank with its readers. Frankness breeds discontent at times; discontent brings complaint, sometimes valid, more often invalid. TIME, in its unique way, says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse...
...reasons why the Senate's original cloture rules were dropped are no longer valid. At its inception, the Senate had rules for cloture. In 1806, these rules were dropped. Then the Senate had only 34 members, represented less than 7,000,000 people, and had comparatively little business to transact-so little that cloture had been invoked only three times in 17 years, and the cloture rules were discarded as unnecessary...