Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...science. While the leaders of the movement express no intention to undervaluate the Bible, a literal interpretation of the doctrines it expresses are to them impossible. Rather, they prefer to regard the Old and New Testaments as an allegory, an expression in literature of a great people. For that reason there is no argument for withholding the prophetic and inspiring writings of the modern age. The addition would, moreover, bring about the substitution of a fraternal spirit of humanity for an imperial deity...
...reason for the request was explained by the editor of the Year Book. It is desirous that the book's queen be chosen by an Eastern college with the reputation of being "rich and exclusive, with a country club atmosphere." While the students here declared themselves unqualified on these grounds, they modestly admitted that as judges they could not be improved upon. --Boston Transcript...
Harvard, richest of universities, recently discharged twenty cleaning women from Widener Library without advance notice or pay and without giving them any reason. These women had been in the employ of the university for periods ranging from thirty-three years to two. Harvard University is a vast business corporation employing hundreds of wage earners, excluding faculty members. Its ruthlessness in this case might perhaps be laid to our present industrial organization. But what are we to think when President A. Lawrence Lowell, asked by a minister to reconsider the case of one woman who is in dire poverty with...
...least so far as tariff duties go, when the Customs Court ruled: "The wife is now a distinct legal entity . . . upon terms of equality with her husband in respect to property, torts, contracts and civil rights. . . .[She] may acquire a domicile separate and apart from her husband by reason of his misconduct or abandonment or by his agreement either express or implied." (The McCormicks had agreed to live separately...
...Cline, only woman member of the court, first woman appointee in the Federal judiciary. In a separate opinion she objected to the court's implication that a separate domicile was to be taken as an exception, not as an accepted rule: ''. . . I can discern no reason why they [wives] should not have equal rights as to the selection of a domicile. . . . The common law has been practically expunged...