Word: logically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hizzonner" intended. If the press hopes to overcome the corrupt influences and mould public opinion, it must change its methods. It might even do well to emulate the style of Mr. Brisbane, who is unfortunately hiring the country's best editorial ability to serve its worst interests. The political logic of a large city may be, like Einstein's theory, "past all human understanding". But it is within the power of the sincere journalist to make it something comprehensible, and to guide it properly...
...with one of his imaginary German professors who had tried to prove that Michelangelo was a German, because Michelangelo had black hair, and some Germans, too, have black hair. I am afraid that in his preoccupation with the German professor, Mr. Chesterton has acquired much of the latter's logic. If Mr. Chesterton's jests could be reduced to a reasoned argument, I suppose it would run like this: No man of Jewish descent can become an Englishman, for some Jews take Mr. Chesterton seriously...
...college, after all, to be educated; if the curriculum is education, why then, Phi Beta Kappa is the mark of success in curricular pursuits--and most to be desired. Unfortunately, the hypothesis that the curriculum in itself constitutes education is the weak link in the chain of this logic; for it is too obvious that the curriculum is but a part very likely the most important part, but not the whole of the connotation of a "college education" in America today: Friendship, personal relationships, and contacts, a certain amount of freedom for individual initiative--all these things are too dear...
Governor Miller's message on the enforcement of the prohibition amendment and the Volstead law is a model of clarity and logic. It disposes of all opposition in the epigrammatic declaration: "The honest enforcement of the law may lend to its modification: the tolerated disobedience of it can only breed disorder and create contempt for all law." In these words Governor Miller sets forth a fundamental principle. There has been a strong tendency here abouts to place the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law in a class apart and to talk and act as if a citizen were free...
Most college men, I suppose, visualize the study of the law either as a matter of memorizing legal forms or of learning the circumlocutions of dry logic. It is neither and far more difficult than both. It is a process of strenuous mental toughening, not unlike the process of toughening one's muscles, and strengthening one's wind and endurance for the supreme test of the "big game" or the "big race" which the college athlete endures. Learning the law is learning a method of attack and training the intellectual muscles until they are tough as whip cord, spring with...