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...natural selection to man-made institutions, constantly inveighed against pampering weaklings either among men or their institutions. Scorning the word "sociology" as smacking of uplift, Keller and Sumner called their subject societology. Greatest Keller precept, which no Keller student ever forgot, was a ruthless respect for facts and contempt for "thobbery" (i.e., wishful thinking...
...Japan's inferiority complex clashing with China's contempt for her will be the most hopeless problem to solve in a post-war Far East," said Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, at the second symposium of the Council on Post-War Problems last night...
...With money devaluated and the population starving. Greeks still look with contempt on the invaders. On a bus in Athens an Italian officer offered his seat to a Greek soldier with an amputated leg. Said the Greek: "I'd rather stand than accept your kindness." The Italian did not know what to do, but a German officer did. He arrested the Greek, took him to German headquarters, made him stand on his one leg for three hours, saluting every officer who entered or left...
...actresses really enjoyed, themselves, or if the "inviting" organizations did, there might be some excuse for the Harvard-Hollywood axis. But neither does; it's straight publicity, through and through; and from a Harvard angle, all bad. Alumni, friends, and complete strangers look on the University with a renewed contempt when they read how the actresses have outsmarted the gentlemen. If the organizations had a stronger loyalty to the University than to themselves, they would from here on steer clear of Hollywood...
...army grounds, there could be no discipline in an emergency when it was needed. Soldiers will not be likely to trust and obey a captain with whom they have become familiar and perhaps got drunk, according to their theory, and familiarity of any sort breeds not only contempt but disobedience. But the lieutenant who sees his captain or even his colonel staggering out of the bar at the officers' club will have the same feeling toward him as a private would, and at the same time the privates do not seem to distrust their sergeants after they have gone...