Common sense isn't.
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| MIT's motto is "Mens et Manus," which translates from the Latin to "Mind and Hand." This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application. "Mens et Manus" appears on the Institute's official seal, along with a scholar and a laborer who signify a union of knowledge and the mechanical arts, as do the volumes "Science and Arts" that rest on the pedestal in the center of the seal. |
| Quote of the moment |
| I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity! |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Jan. 12, 1940, to Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, pp. 304-305, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Bailey had written the President objecting to Myron Taylor being designated as an Ambassador to the Vatican, contending that the title would offend some Protestant groups in America. FDR took this occasion to suggest that such groups in the South had exhibited a peculiar lack of real Christian values in the past and their complaints were not very worrisome to him. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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