Word: bertrand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University of Chicago's, now numbers 109.) Last week President Barr announced he was quitting St. John's, going off somewhere else to start a new college-almost exactly like the one he was leaving...
Wisconsin's Republican Representative Frank B. Keefe (who signed the majority report along with California's Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart) took a middle ground in a supplemental opinion. Items: the Democratic majority had tried "to throw as soft a light as possible on the Washington scene"; General George Marshall and Admiral Harold Stark "must bear their full share of responsiblity"; the U.S. people must be better informed of the course of U.S. diplomacy than they were...
...Bertrand W. Taylor...
When he resigned from the faculty in 1938, in poor health, the Campus editorialized: "We Won't Let Him." In 1940 he emerged from retirement to defend Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who was first appointed to C.C.N.Y., then dismissed (on grounds that he was not of "moral character"). Cohen's essay on this "scandalous denial of justice" reflects both his intense enthusiasms and his considerable legal abilities. Though a layman, he has influenced Frankfurter and many another jurist. In his writings, he is as unsparing of friends like Holmes, Brandeis and Einstein as he is of his enemies...
...Shades, No Smoking. He brought Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to Smith, ardently defended Sacco and Vanzetti. In a notable free speech fight in 1926, he stuck by faculty member Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, who was under fire for writing a book which absolved Germany of a good portion of World War I guilt and spread the blame over the other powers. Said Neilson in 1927: "The question . . . has always seemed to me to be not 'Are [Professor X's] views correct?' but 'Can the college afford to suppress him or his views at the cost...