Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onus of responsibility for the declining standard of a Harvard undergraduate education cannot be laid at any one doorstep. But perhaps part of it is inherent in the ad hoc committee system of appointments, and the yardstick employed in those appointments. Under the present method of appointments, a particular Department within the Faculty which possesses a vacancy enjoys only the power of making a recommendation for the vacancy, which must finally be approved or disapproved by a secret, Administration-selected, ad hoc committee of scholars most of whom are drawn from other universities. Such a committee visits Harvard...
Although no alternative system which is any better than the ad hoc method of appointments has been advanced, nevertheless the disadvantages of the Harvard system are manifestly apparent. The hastiness of the ad hoc committee's meeting results in a tendency to magnify the importance of visible, tangible scholarship over teaching, a magnification which the Administration itself has been liable during the past thirteen years. This has often resulted in making the contest for a departmental appointment a mere assaying of foot pounds of published work...
Business had never been so good; they were twelve weeks behind orders. The Fisher radio-phonograph had sold mostly by word-of-mouth advertising. The New York Times has repeatedly turned down a Fisher ad which called it the "world's best" machine; last month, surveying the field, FORTUNE said it for Fisher...
...newspapers wouldn't take the Gimbels ad. Reason: they could not bear the thought of one big client hurting another big client's feelings. Undaunted...
...advertising: "Piqued by the small sale of I Never Left Home (1,620,000 copies, mostly to relatives), Bob Hope has written another book. It is called So This Is Peace, and it deals, off the bottom of the deck, with Reconversion." At the bottom of the ad was what seemed to be an added fillip in the same joking vein: "Published by the Hope Corporation...