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This attitude annoys scientists. Science, say they, is doing all right; the fault lies with statesmen, teachers, economists, philosophers, writers who have not caught up to science. On behalf of these irate scientists Stuart Chase spoke out in The Tyranny of Words (TIME, Jan. 24), blamed the world's ills on the fact that people live by nonscientific words and principles...
...putting hackneyed remarks in anybody's mouth. Your reviewer is finding fault with sworn testimony from a naval court of inquiry and Congressional committee of investigation. The conversation in Hell on Ice is directly, word for word, out of the record...
...Committee is honest, then it is not the only body which in the past has found fault with the system of nominations. The complaint is old that the Student Council chooses a Nominating Committee with which it has intimate connections, and that this Committee satisfies the Council by, in turn, nominating it for the class officers. Despite doubts about the intentions of the Committee for Electoral Reform, its objection to the lack of publicity given the Senior Constitution, against which 133 Seniors voted, is certainly valid...
...Because Dr. Bock ventured to illustrate his point that the tempo of modern life is hard on the nervous system, it was instantly interpreted as a direct rebuke at Benito Mussolini for upsetting the equilibrium of Harvard University. This impression and the accompanying ridicule were not Dr. Bock's fault, but he should have known better...
...greatest thinker of his day, and it is no fault of his that today his very name is synonymous with all that is black and treacherous. He was not a wicked man, unless patriotism is a sin. He was not a barbarian, but rather an historian, an ambassador and a dramatist. Indeed there were few cultural past-times in which he was not adept...