Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...