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This time the committee kept strict order, and the two lawmakers got a sober hearing. They had ideas on a range of subjects...
...cheerfully admits, "are never successful. The idea you start with mentally is very fine, but as soon as you try to put it plastically, it's ruined. That's why you always begin again." Escher's brilliantly conceived beginnings may not be art in any strict sense of the word, but they may quite possibly broaden art's horizons...
Considering all this, the practical benefits of Mrs. Day's gift seem to outweigh by far the disadvantages of a slight deviation from a strict and admirable principle. Had the gift been small, or the wording of the gift more blatantly discriminatory, or the Slight of the Medical School less desperate, there would have been an undeniable argument for refusing the bequest. As it is, none of the negative arguments can override the benefit that will come to all scholarship students in the Medical School...
Last year's council did all these things. Then it examined each rule with strict attention to necessity, desirability, practicability, and consequences. It was not the council's fault that Dean Watson and the Administrative Board chose to ignore a large part of its objections and the whole of their basis in principle. The little green sheet was enacted by the deans and printed up far too late for the fall council to consider...
...with it, like the Anabaptists. They were small, fervent groups of men & women who tried seriously to return to the simplicity of primitive Christianity. They drew a sharp line between the church and the world, emphasized the mystical, unmediated approach to God, the "priesthood of all believers" and the strict separation of church & state. Sometimes, as with the Baptists and Quakers, the sects themselves surged to sudden brief popularity. But in Europe, their influence was greatest in liberalizing the Protestant state churches on whose sufferance they lived...