Word: logically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...freedom of speech, but the power of the Corporation to appoint as lecturers whatever scholars it chooses. Bertrand Russell was not chosen because Harvard wishes to give freedom of speech to "eccentric ideas" about domestic relations. He was selected because he is a foremost scholar in the field of logic. He is not to lecture on the relations between male and female but on the relations between logic and language...
...independent body to appoint men they believe are specially qualified for certain jobs. They point out that the William James Lectureship calls for "eminent scholars not connected with Harvard University." Dr. Russell, they add, is a "mathematician and philosopher of recognized eminence," and will lecture here on mathematics, logic, and language...
...right to let Dr. Russell's lectures undermine Harvard's morals. Harvard men who want to be corrupted can easily find Earl Russell's books on marriage and morals in Widener Library. But the Corporation sticks to its point that the famous Briton is eminently fitted to lecture on logic and language. If Mr. Dorgan is worried, he might much more profitable train his guns on Philosophy B, which annually indoctrinates more than 200 innocent undergraduates with the dangerous and subversive tenets of Russell's "Introduction to Philosophy...
...logic displayed by the gentlemen of the Tribune seems muddy at best. Certainly Greenland is not the rich prize that Germany would covet to help support it through a long war or even provide it with raw materials in time of peace. A second theory that has been much mentioned is that Greenland would be valuable to Germany as a naval base or air base. There seems to be little possibility of such a move in any but the very distant future, however. Even at the beginning of the war, the German navy was not strong enough to carry...
...choice of sending ships and planes to Europe now or possibly having to fight Germany in our waters in the distant future, the interventionists have drawn a bad hand. It would be comforting to believe that the gentlemen of the Tribune were vulnerable to the charge of faulty logic rather than that of insidious intent...