Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the University of Chicago's still-youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, 38, the most characteristic feature of the modern world is bewilderment. This bewilderment he would attack with a return to reason. To him the university is the place of all places to grapple with those fundamental principles...
During 33 years with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he became one of the two or three prime U. S. authorities on utility depreciation. For ten years he was first vice president and treasurer of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Atlanta. Now in his eleventh year as executive assistant to...
Called dementia praecox because it strikes most victims between the "precocious" ages of 18 and 35, called schizophrenia because it reveals a split between the emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured...
Borrowing from Macaulay's pleas for competitive civil service examinations, President Conant declared his suspicion of new fields of study, saying that to abandon the old disciplines is to jeopardize "the selective principle in our educational machinery". The issue here he showed to be whether an educated man is one...
One of the most glaring discrepancies in modern education is the relative lightness of school and college study as compared with the drudgery of graduate work. Most undergraduates admit that their full powers are not called into play except during the short weeks immediately previous to examinations. An even greater...