Word: logically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...student committee for the playground points out, this claim is open to serious question. Conversion of an eyesore and police problem into a valuable social service for the entire residential neighborhood should raise, not lower the value of abutting land. In failing to rise above the doubtful logic of a few property-owners and provide for the pressing need of hundreds of eager boys, the Park Board has blocked a plan full of promise for both Cambridge and Harvard...
...understand that Mr. Russell was engaged to teach mathematics, but if his reasoning in that line is in accord with his obvious lack of logic in other lines, then Harvard boys will be going out into the world under the mistaken impression that two and two makes five...
...letter appearing in the Harvard Crimson of May 9 is an obvious masterpiece of evasiveness manifesting a woeful lack of logic on the part of a pseudo-philosopher...
...principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society." The appointment of Bertrand Russell does not contravene that clause, as Mr. Sullivan suggests. Dr. Russell has stated that while on a Harvard platform he will confine himself to his lecture subject--announced as logic and semantics--since "even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the classroom, my own conscience would not allow me to do so . . . they have no connection with the subjects which it is my profession to teach." Hence his utterances as a Harvard lecturer, the only utterances with...
...heard Koussevitzky's version last Saturday night at Symphony Hall, you listened to a performance clipped and almost terse, which bound together the loose ends of Tchaikowski's orchestration and made the entire symphony an unforgettably dramatic thing. Stokowski's prettifying turns a symphony, with its connotations of logic and coherence, into a series of lush effects. Only the most straightforward kind of treatment can bring out half the greatness in a Tchaikowski symphony, the balance and the color and the drama, and the clarity of motion, which make Brahms's symphonies sound like academic exercises...