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 |
| A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers—a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Ed. Edgar B. Nixon, Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, Annual Address to Congress, January 3, 1936, vol. 3, pp. 153-154, The Belknap Press of Harvard University (1969). Edward M. Bennett, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Security: American-Soviet Relations, 1933-1939, p. 75, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (1985). FDR wished to impress on Congress and the American people that isolationism and unilateral arms reduction were impossible in the face of the aggressive plans of Germany, Japan, and Italy. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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