Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's report, first public statement of his presidential philosophy, he left no doubt of his mind and purpose. James Bryant Conant is in love with the search for knowledge. He believes that Harvard's mission is to lead that search. He is sure that Harvard can accomplish that mission only by securing abler...
...increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the outstanding men whom we desire. I need not stress the necessity of our having at Harvard great scholars and investigators. Our ultimate contribution to society will depend on their scholarly output and their stimulating teaching. What they accomplish and those whom they inspire will be the measure of our success. If we have in each department of the University the most distinguished faculty which it is possible to obtain, we need have little worry about the future. If we fail in this regard, there are no educational panaceas which...
...future even more than in the past, we should attract to our student body the most promising young men throughout the whole nation. To accomplish its mission Harvard must be a truly national university. The young men who enter the College and our professional schools are today drawn from no single locality and no single class. Student aid and student employment have enabled many with small means to complete their Harvard course. It is very difficult, however, for a student without any financial resources to continue his education in a privately endowed institution. It is particularly difficult if he comes...
...secondly, to making it possible for them to study here whatever their financial circumstances may be. In fulfilling the first objective he will probably rely on the presence of a brilliant faculty and on an impending campaign to sell Harvard to the country by means of intensive publicity. To accomplish the second objective, he presents in his report a plan for regrouping the scholarship funds, awarding a portion of the scholarships for two or three years, and establishing a number of fellowships carrying a heavy stipend for entering Freshmen. The CRIMSON must postpone detailed comment on these proposals until...
...football coach. There would seem to be no particular reason why Yale should not got a non-graduate coach if it wants to, but one wonders why it should take weeks and weeks of frantic effort--all chronicled in columns upon columns of type in the metropolitan press--to accomplish the purpose. The spectacle of a highly paid athletisc director and his assistants, to say nothing of the president of the University, scurrying down to New York every few days to interview prospects for a football coaching job, may furnish a topic of conversation for thousands of gonty graduates...