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...exist. To the people of the Rocky Mountain west, Democracy means after all mainly the preservation of our own personal freedom and our homes. We cannot get along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded...
Following the tea, Mrs. Roosevelt became the first person ever to be made an honorary member of the Harvard Dames. She spoke about women in the world of tomorrow, claiming that they must adapt themselves to ever-changing situations and use careful judgment in forming their opinions...
...cope with the steadily increasing host of problems whose only solution is "more money," Harvard will eventually have to adapt its financial position to the need of the day. This it could probably do by following the plan which Chicago's enterprising President Hutchins advanced last year. Mr. Hutchins proposed that endowments should be made available to the college for every-day expenses instead of being stocked up as untouchable funds "to be preserved forever." Heretofore it has been the custom of most donors to stipulate that the principal of their gift be left intact; but this is precisely what...
...many years now there has been a definite trend towards personalizing Harvard education, a trend in which the Grant Study is the latest example. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the Board of Freshman Advisers are all part of this trend. But these examples are attempts to adapt the individual more nearly to the requirements of a Harvard education. With the advent of the Grant Study, a conscious attempt is being made for the first time in its history to adapt Harvard education to the undergraduate...
...than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever is a sort of left wing Satevepost story-an attempt to adapt to left wing fiction the technique of catching gas bombs and tossing them back before they explode...